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Because they have a monopoly on App Stores on iOS devices Edit: clarification of Apple’s monopolising
by simonhamp 6y ago
Because they have a monopoly on App Stores on iOS devices
Edit: clarification of Apple’s monopolising
- threeseed 6y agoApple does not have a monopoly on phones. Far from it in fact. If you are referring to the App Store itself well no hardware device I can even think of, apart from a computer, allows competing stores.
- damnyou 6y agoAndroid?
- mynameisvlad 6y agoYeah, apart from installing APKs from the internet, you also have F-droid which is an entirely separate app repository, along with official stores from Samsung, Amazon and other OEMs.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- intopieces 6y agoIs Wal-Mart a monopoly too, since I’m not allowed to walk in and set up my own shelf of goods to sell? Serious question
- actuator 6y agoIf we are going down this line, I can also make some new arguments. Why do you think MS bundling IE was bad then, sure they had more marketshare than iOS but they were just improving the end user experience and now every platform comes with a browser by default.
- simonhamp 6y agoThat’s the wrong comparison. In this context your opportunity is to create an entirely new supermarket in the same country. No one can create a new App Store on iOS devices.
- why_only_15 6y agoThe equivalent would be buying an Android phone, which many people do (in fact more than have an iPhone).
- simonhamp 6y agoI see that as equivalent to opening your Wal-mart competitor in a different country... there’s no competition.