> For the most part Apple's devices and products face a pretty competitive landscape. Not really. The point is less about market positioning and more about bui

> For the most part Apple's devices and products face a pretty competitive landscape. Not really. The point is less about market positioning and more about building fair platforms. Apple wants to frame themselves as an underdog competitor in the global economy, but they fail because they can't even build a fair or open platform when given total freedom to do so. This "failure" has made them a lot of money, but it's also come to the detriment of users everywhere, whether they know it or not. The law exists explicitly to push companies like Apple along when they get too fat and rest on their Carnegie laurels. > The alternatives to going through the App Store are really not viable. Someone ought to tell the Mac people this, they'll be heartbroken. > In this one small market Apple exerts its market dominance influence to take a lot of money from 3rd party developers. Of course this is small potatoes compared to all the other markets that they compete in and even as a fraction of their revenue. Last year Apple made more from services than they did from iPhone hardware. That's not just a "fraction" anymore.