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"Did they really need to make their own app store?" Yes, they did. Not for your benefit, but for theirs. They're a retailer, and they want to control their own
by Finnucane 11y ago
"Did they really need to make their own app store?"
Yes, they did. Not for your benefit, but for theirs. They're a retailer, and they want to control their own ecosystem. Does Walmart let Target have a corner of their stores to sell stuff in? No,they don't.
- Splines 11y agoThere are few real-world analogies for the vertical that is Amazon. We don't have brick and mortar construction companies that also are a retailer (as far as I know). Amazon is like a company that builds houses, and will only allow Amazon appliances inside the house, even though other appliances generally work fine. Your buddy across the street has a house made by Google, and their house can have any appliance, which kinda irks you.
- Finnucane 11y agoWell, not quite. The point is that you can't get anything for your Amazon "house" that Amazon isn't taking a cut from the sale. (And in ye olde days, there was a time when you could open the Sears, Roebuck catalog, and order, literally, a whole house and everything that needed to go inside it, and have it delivered to you.)