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Consumers have already purchased the store, but Apple is still controlling all the shelves inside, and the cash register.
by bduerst 6y ago
Consumers have already purchased the store, but Apple is still controlling all the shelves inside, and the cash register.
- etchalon 6y agoConsumers didn't purchase the store. They purchased a phone, with a Store on it. On that same phone, there's another Store where Apple has zero control. But consumers prefer the store Apple controls because the products they can get out of that store work better, due to the efforts Apple puts into the Store to make that so. Developers want to sell in that store because they know users prefer products from that store, due to the efforts of Apple. People would really like if Apple made it such that products from either store could do exactly the same things, but Apple is under no obligation to do that.
- bduerst 6y agoThe phone is the store in your analogy. You own it. It is yours, yet you do not expect the previous owner to still forceably control the shelf space of your own store. Or exclusively take from your cash register.
- etchalon 6y agoThe phone is very much not the store in my analogy. The store is the store. The phone is the phone. My analogy is not that deep.
- bduerst 6y agoOh no it's spot on. You own your phone, so you own the hardware that houses the store, yet the previous owner is still getting exclusivity inside the property you just purchased. And forceably taking a cut from their competition as you try to transact with their competition.
- wvenable 6y agoThe phone is useless without the store and the store is nothing without the phone. They are inextricably linked. Which is, of course, the whole problem right there.