Quite. Mobile is not some shiny new tech that deserves a special dispensation. It's now critical public infrastructure. The mobile duopoly is like having a duo

Quite. Mobile is not some shiny new tech that deserves a special dispensation. It's now critical public infrastructure. The mobile duopoly is like having a duopoly on printing or paper manufacture. It would be crippling for businesses to have to pay a Paper Tax for all paper use, with a special surcharge for check or invoice printing, over and above the purchase cost of printer hardware. Mobile payments and app ecosystems are no different. There might be a case if Apple was far more careful about app quality, curation, and security than it pretends to be. But realistically it's just not doing a good enough job with any of them to justify its cut.