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Do you remember when Apple was engaged in price rigging for ebooks? https://www.nbcnews.com/businessmain/apple-faces-5-year-ban-e-book-price-rigging-conspiracy

Do you remember when Apple was engaged in price rigging for ebooks? https://www.nbcnews.com/businessmain/apple-faces-5-year-ban-e-book-price-rigging-conspiracy-6C10825035 https://www.nbcnews.com/businessmain/apple-faces-5-year-ban-... We already have rules about how much control a single company can have over a market and what defines a market. The app store is clearly a market. Apple has an aggressive chokehold on it that artificially inflates prices and prevents competition. As an obvious check - Amazon can't sell me ebooks through it's kindle app without Apple being involved and taking a 30% cut. That is market control and abuse. Let's say you want to build a direct competitor to an Apple product. You can't because Apple actually won't let you do the things it's apps do if you want to be listed in the store. That's called market abuse.

laserlight 4y ago
> We already have rules about how much control a single company can have over a market and what defines a market. I don't know of such rules. Can you point me to them? To the contrary, there's Epic Games v. Apple case in which definition of the market is pretty narrow (digital mobile gaming transactions) compared to what you suggest (App Store in general) [0]. > That is market control and abuse. In the same case, judge decided that Apple is not a monopoly, saying “Success is not illegal.” [1] > Apple has an aggressive chokehold on it that artificially inflates prices and prevents competition. Almost all apps are free. What inflated prices are you talking about? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple#Decision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple#Decision [1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/23/apple-versus-epic-games-fortnite-app-store-saga----the-story-so-far#ruling-declares-apples-not-a-monopoly-must-allow-alternate-payment-methods https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/23/apple-versus-epic...

laserlight 4y ago

> We already have rules about how much control a single company can have over a market and what defines a market. I don't know of such rules. Can you point me to them? To the contrary, there's Epic Games v. Apple case in which definition of the market is pretty narrow (digital mobile gaming transactions) compared to what you suggest (App Store in general) [0]. > That is market control and abuse. In the same case, judge decided that Apple is not a monopoly, saying “Success is not illegal.” [1] > Apple has an aggressive chokehold on it that artificially inflates prices and prevents competition. Almost all apps are free. What inflated prices are you talking about? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple#Decision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple#Decision [1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/23/apple-versus-epic-games-fortnite-app-store-saga----the-story-so-far#ruling-declares-apples-not-a-monopoly-must-allow-alternate-payment-methods https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/23/apple-versus-epic...