> the benefits of a single-vendor app store (of which there are a significant quantity). I'd say the great majority of those benefits are going to Apple. Ther

> the benefits of a single-vendor app store (of which there are a significant quantity). I'd say the great majority of those benefits are going to Apple. There's nothing that Apple does in their app store that a third party app store owner couldn't do. Anyone can curate apps. As a customer of the Apple app store, I've absolutely experienced the detrimental effects of Apple's behavior. For one thing, I can't build software for my own device because Apple is too concerned about losing control. There are also whole categories of software that I simply cannot have because Apple won't let them be sold in their store. They already lost the anti-trust case to decide if they can be sued again by customers. I hope they lose the next one too.