> Shouldn't they be rewarded for taking that risk? They are already, every time someone buys an iPhone because of the large supply of apps that exist. > Also

> Shouldn't they be rewarded for taking that risk? They are already, every time someone buys an iPhone because of the large supply of apps that exist. > Also, the Google analogy would only work if websites were directly built on google's platform. They do. They benefit from Google's crawling and indexing infrastructure which they researched, developed and host on their hardware. > Google did not create HTML, doesn't host your website, They are one of the biggest contributors to HTML, CSS and JavaScript both in standardisation and implementation. Also tangentially, in the AMP standard Google does host your website. > and doesn't provide the browser software for you to access it through. They provide Google Chrome which is exactly that.