Agreed for PASemi and Android. They were hot, certainly they won in the short-mid term by being part of the bigger organizations. But by now, I think it severel

Agreed for PASemi and Android. They were hot, certainly they won in the short-mid term by being part of the bigger organizations. But by now, I think it severely limits their possible impact. All the big app stores that are also part of another purchase (e.g. hardware in this case) will almost inevitably have monopoly problems (nobody can compete with Apple on speed of devices so Apple can raise the "prices" of apps). You are talking about the technical aspect that sideloading should be allowed (i.e. some competition), but this is not enough - eventually this competition should have some form of an "equal" start, probably by allowing them to install the market from the App Store, which is what Telegram wanted in their case.