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The way the laws are written, you can be insanely anti-consumer and anti-competitive all you want if you aren't a monopoly. Apple is a distant number 2 to Andr
by JohnTHaller 10y ago
The way the laws are written, you can be insanely anti-consumer and anti-competitive all you want if you aren't a monopoly. Apple is a distant number 2 to Android in the phone space. So they can dictate things like: our app store and our app store alone, you can't even manually install apps from anywhere else, you can only use our browser engine and no competing engines, etc. Microsoft, for instance, couldn't pull these kinds of things with Windows because it is more of a monopoly on the desktop due to it having >90% user share.
- digi_owl 10y agoMS could be below 50% and still be in trouble if they were still the big dog of the pack.
- coldtea 10y agoHow is all that different to a rule like, e.g. "when you come sit at our restaurant', buy OUR food, don't bring outside food".
- JohnTHaller 10y agoIt's more like you bought takeout food but had to sign a licensing agreement that you would not be permitted to add your own seasonings when you got it home. Unless they were certified seasonings purchased at our restaurant. Using our branded credit card. And they sue anyone that attempts to market seasonings for their restaurant without paying them 30% of the sales price.
- coldtea 10y agoYes, but you're sitting there eating that takeout food at a place (platform) that somebody else created. And even the sale of takeout food happened through that same platform.
- JohnTHaller 10y agoNope. I bought that takeout food and brought it home. I'm not using my iPhone in an Apple store. I'm using it in my apartment. If we're making a clumsy (and inaccurate) analogy to the physical world, this is how far you take it to demonstrate the absurdity of it.
- coldtea 10y ago>Nope. I bought that takeout food and brought it home. I'm not using my iPhone in an Apple store. The "restaurant" is the iOS, not the Apple store. I only used the physical location (a restaurant) as an analogy. You're using the App in an environment Apple created.
- JohnTHaller 10y agoThe restaurant as iOS is a flawed analogy, though. It's my phone that I purchased and now own in which Apple's "restaurant" exists and dictates rules to me, the owner?
- type0 10y agoThe comparison got flawed because Apple markets and treats its' OS as their property, in reality when you buy the hardware with software preinstalled you own the software, otherwise they should sell it without iOS. Users should decide how they pay for their applications, not Apple. So it was never Apples restaurant in the first place, or do they sell hardware without the App Store preinstalled? does it not run on the users hardware? Anyways the analogy went bananas. Enjoy your Apples!