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But that's not anti-competitive. All manner of well-funded corporations would be able to start app stores on mobile, and several (Epic, Valve/Steam, Microsoft)
by headmelted 6y ago
But that's not anti-competitive.
All manner of well-funded corporations would be able to start app stores on mobile, and several (Epic, Valve/Steam, Microsoft) would start app stores the second they were able to.
They'd also be competing for software - as there's a lot of fat that can be trimmed in those 30% margins.
The competition, which would be fierce, is more than enough to solve the issue of price fixing.
- zepto 6y agoAny fat trimmed in the margins (which is less than you think) would not accrue to developers because they’d have to deal with multiple stores and multiple rules sets. They also wouldn’t have to offer the same terms to every developer. All they would need to do would be to lock in some exclusive popular apps. ‘Competing for developers’ doesn’t mean making things better for all developers. It just means securing enough exclusives that people can’t ignore your store.