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What part of the law forces companies to sell things they don’t want to? Or to force the creation of a retail marketplace on their own ecosystem? It will lik
by parasubvert 6y ago
What part of the law forces companies to sell things they don’t want to? Or to force the creation of a retail marketplace on their own ecosystem?
It will likely require a new legislation to force the regulation of App Stores as public utilities.
Violating the Sherman act requires demonstration of monopoly or restraint of trade. Any ISV has many channels and platforms with which to sell its wares, so this will be hard to prove. Asking for a retail cut % isn’t restraint of trade.
The ISVs like Epic want more profit for themselves by forcing the regulation of app stores as public utilities, so that like a power generation company, they can compete separately from the distribution system. That is a tall order to prove that it’s more in the public interest than in the ISV’s interest.