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So what is preventing some other company to build and manage an app store for Apple software? If Apple is preventing competing app stores, isn't that anti-comp

• underwater 6y ago
  The argument is that iOS is not a monopoly because there are other smartphone ecosystems. I'm of the opinion that Android and iPhone are not interchangeable. They have different experiences, and there are things that are mutually exclusive by design (iMessage, Notes, etc.)
  • zaroth 6y ago
    The economic concept of substitutes does not required the products to be indistinguishable. They are clearly competing devices under any definition.
• forgotmypw17 6y ago
  It already exists, but it's against Apple's wishes, with everything that entails. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydia