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“... there are many rivals trying to woo mobile developers and consumers.” Wow. Many? There are only two platforms, Android and iOS. Android barely has any com

“... there are many rivals trying to woo mobile developers and consumers.” Wow. Many? There are only two platforms, Android and iOS. Android barely has any competition with Play and iOS has no competition for the App Store. So who are the rivals? The Play Store and the App Store do not compete as they cater to distinct audiences.

evilantnie 6y ago
Apple's market share when it comes to streaming video is not as dominant as it is for mobile apps. Samsung, Android, and WebOS platforms out-share them by quite a bit, Amazon had already established their app in those markets, along with the success of the firestick. This was all about subscriptions, and the customers weren't watching or had stopped watching on apple devices in 2016/17, so Apple was willing to concede the rev share % to retain subscriptions that started on their platform. Now Apple gets to count those numbers as subs, even if they aren't watching on Apple devices anymore.
baddox 6y ago
I think in practice the web provides the biggest competition to any native app development, but of course that’s not really a commercial entity trying to “woo” developers.
noarchy 6y ago
In this case, Amazon does run its own app store. And as far as streaming platforms go, it sells its own devices (that use Amazon's app store).
nend 6y ago
Cook said this defensively in regards to a question during the anti trust hearings. The context makes it even worse, because his additional examples were the play station and Xbox platforms, which obviously aren't mobile app competitors. It was a prepared canned response that barely addressed the question, but since each rep only gets 5 minutes to ask questions, Cook (and others) could basically answer however they wanted because there's no time for follow up. The anti trust laws were designed to prevent exactly this type of action the article is talking about, but we've given big business so much political sway I don't have much faith the laws are enforceable at this point.
- rhizome 6y ago
  Even Cook underplayed the mentality these guys are working with. Yesterday, Zuckerberg essentially said that his definition of Facebook's competition includes running into a friend at the grocery store. The wider they can cast the net, the easier it is to fend off antitrust controls, or at least the threat of them, as far as their stockholders are concerned.

evilantnie 6y ago

Apple's market share when it comes to streaming video is not as dominant as it is for mobile apps. Samsung, Android, and WebOS platforms out-share them by quite a bit, Amazon had already established their app in those markets, along with the success of the firestick. This was all about subscriptions, and the customers weren't watching or had stopped watching on apple devices in 2016/17, so Apple was willing to concede the rev share % to retain subscriptions that started on their platform. Now Apple gets to count those numbers as subs, even if they aren't watching on Apple devices anymore.

baddox 6y ago

I think in practice the web provides the biggest competition to any native app development, but of course that’s not really a commercial entity trying to “woo” developers.

noarchy 6y ago

In this case, Amazon does run its own app store. And as far as streaming platforms go, it sells its own devices (that use Amazon's app store).

nend 6y ago

Cook said this defensively in regards to a question during the anti trust hearings. The context makes it even worse, because his additional examples were the play station and Xbox platforms, which obviously aren't mobile app competitors. It was a prepared canned response that barely addressed the question, but since each rep only gets 5 minutes to ask questions, Cook (and others) could basically answer however they wanted because there's no time for follow up. The anti trust laws were designed to prevent exactly this type of action the article is talking about, but we've given big business so much political sway I don't have much faith the laws are enforceable at this point.

rhizome 6y ago
Even Cook underplayed the mentality these guys are working with. Yesterday, Zuckerberg essentially said that his definition of Facebook's competition includes running into a friend at the grocery store. The wider they can cast the net, the easier it is to fend off antitrust controls, or at least the threat of them, as far as their stockholders are concerned.