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This applies to any business that operates a store, and a business that sells a product within that store. Replace software with retail in your example, it doe
by kirykl 6y ago
This applies to any business that operates a store, and a business that sells a product within that store.
Replace software with retail in your example, it doesn't sound so abnormal
"Walmart can, at will, remove your entire line of potato chips from your (their) customers and your existance in their stores is just gone."
- jfim 6y agoSure, but at the same time one could sell their product in different stores, or even D2C online. The store analogy also has very limited switching costs, for example if Walmart stops selling brand X of potato chips, it's inconvenient but not impractical to go out of one's way to buy them at Target. It would be different if buying potato chips at Target would involve throwing out everything one has bought at Walmart and buying the same Target-equivalent merchandise (ie. switching from iPhone to Android, one would need to buy equivalent apps).
- pjmlp 6y agoAndroid store, Jolla store, Tizen store, Samsung Store, Amazon store. Epic's problem is that they want a Epic Store on other people's devices.
- tramav 6y agoHowever: Does Apple support officially other app stores on their iOS platform or allows to sideload apps in a convenient manner?
- jsjohnst 6y ago> or allows to sideload apps in a convenient manner? If you include using 3rd party apps like AltStore, then yes it meets a reasonable definition of convenient, imho.
- ghosty141 6y agoHowever: Does Walmart support other Stores that sell your chips? No! You need to move away from Walmart.