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How do their actions affect you as an Android user?

• heavyset_go 4y ago
  Easily, Apple and Google collude to maintain dominance in the mobile OS markets and leverage that duopoly to dominate other markets like mobile app distribution and mobile app payments. Google's app payments policy is now nearly identical to Apple's, you must use their payment platform to distribute apps on their app store. Just like Apple's policy to prevent competition in the mobile app payments market prevents app developers from even mentioning alternative payment methods in apps or app store listings, Google quickly followed suit and implemented the exact same anticompetitive policy.
  • pb7 4y ago
    >Apple and Google collude Citation needed.
    • heavyset_go 4y ago
      Yes, it's just a coincidence that Apple and Google's anticompetitive policies in the mobile OS and app distribution markets have converged such that they are both practically identical and also allow them to leverage their dominance in those markets to dominate other markets like mobile app payments, as well.
      • pb7 4y ago
        Right, just like every car manufacturer in the world colluded since they all converged on 4 wheels and are practically identical.
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