Google makes billions of dollars as the gatekeeper to advertising on their Search engine. Apple makes (fewer) billions of dollars as the gatekeeper to their Ap

Google makes billions of dollars as the gatekeeper to advertising on their Search engine. Apple makes (fewer) billions of dollars as the gatekeeper to their App Store. Google probably takes more than a 30% cut on the ad revenue that they place on 3rd party sites. I’m not saying it’s a perfect analogy (that would be a contradiction). But in general companies make a product, they get to derive revenue directly by selling the product, and/or they can derive revenue by selling access to the users of that product. Google gives the Search engine away for free because they can make way more money selling advertisers access. Apple increasingly is giving their phone away free-er (lower margin) because they can derive more revenue by selling access to services like App Store. It’s their store. They created it. They sold it with the rules they created being clearly displayed on the package. They actually believe those exact rules to be a huge competitive advantage for them. I believe the rules should be clear and evenly enforced, and they should not discriminate based on things like political/religious viewpoint or basically content beyond maturity rating/obscenity/hate speech.