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Nobody forces you to drink your milkshake at that restaurant. You can go someplace else. You cannot easily go someplace else to install software on your iOS pho
by stewbrew 6y ago
Nobody forces you to drink your milkshake at that restaurant. You can go someplace else. You cannot easily go someplace else to install software on your iOS phone. On Android, you could but this makes the phone more insecure. There is no real competition among app stores. People usually use the store that was pre-installed. They don't compare prices in app stores app by app and then install from the store that is cheapest. No competition, no market. Your argument is fake.
- simonh 6y agoMany flagship Android phones have come with multiple app stores installed, typically one from the phone vendor such as Samsung, the Google Play Store and one from the network and yet 30% has stayed as a pretty consistent charge in a situation where there clearly was plenty of competition. It's a market determined price. Steam, which operates on completely open desktop platforms charges 30%. Even Humble Bundle charges 25%, operates on open platforms and the only thing they do is marketing. Another 5% for running a store client and associated services hardly seems excessive. So nether arguing that open platforms would push down prices, or that app store competition would push them down has actually happened in the real world. 30% is very much validated as a competitive price. If the big stores did cut prices, this would arguably squeeze out the smaller stores and operators like Humble Bundle, reducing choice even more. That 30% is charged to developers, not consumers so in this case it's developers that are the market.