> vendors should be prevented from shipping an App Store with their OS The problem here isn't the quality of the App Store. The problem is that Spotify has no

> vendors should be prevented from shipping an App Store with their OS The problem here isn't the quality of the App Store. The problem is that Spotify has no alternative. Apple is a hardware developer, a software developer, and a software retailer. The problem is how tightly coupled those three roles are on the iPhone. You can't run iOS on other hardware. You can't run another OS on the iPhone. You can't install apps on iOS except from the App Store. You can't use the App Store on other OSes. Those are the underlying problems. Users can't use part of the ecosystem. They have to invest in the whole thing, giving Apple more control and reducing consumer mobility.