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If Apple and Google can do whatever they want on their platform (where they have a combined 99.8% market share in the US), then what's to stop AT&T/Verizon/Cent
by kats 6y ago
If Apple and Google can do whatever they want on their platform (where they have a combined 99.8% market share in the US), then what's to stop AT&T/Verizon/CenturyLink/Comcast from doing whatever they want on their platform, the internet?
- ip26 6y agoThe carrier who provides your physical location service is more comparable to a utility or the postal service than are Apple or Google.
- kats 6y agoOk, but I assume (could be wrong) that's because of the difficulty of creating your own water/sewage/electric service. But isn't it comparably difficult to create your own app store or payment processor?
- ip26 6y agoIt's not just difficulty- it's really not a good thing for anybody if you have three different sewers and four different electrical service lines running to your house. It's expensive, wasteful, a mess, and can even degrade quality of service. But a variety of app stores or payment processors functioning over a common carrier (ISP, USPS) is a good thing.