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> Does Apple treat other video streamers differently than Amazon? Apple changed it's rules for everyone in this category to get Amazon onboard with their video
by rydre 6y ago
> Does Apple treat other video streamers differently than Amazon?
Apple changed it's rules for everyone in this category to get Amazon onboard with their video service.
Why should it take another Amazon in another industry to change rules for that industry? Why did Apple change it's rules in an entire category so that they can get Amazon onboard? Because Amazon is too big and has leverage over Apple? Isn't it?
Well this is precisely why good democracies and competitive countries have anti trust laws.
This also shows that for some arbitrary categories to please companies that have leverage over Apple, Apple will change rules at whim. This also indirectly indicates that Apple does not treat all developers equally - if you look at this in good faith.
- tptacek 6y agoProbably because there are other, more popular app stores. You can draw a line around anything --- the icon that appears when you boot a Macbook, for instance --- and claim that Apple has a "monopoly" over it. You have to persuasively connect it to harm to consumers, which is difficult given the vibrancy of competition in mobile apps.