Honestly not much different to today. a) Apple, Google etc could just refuse to host any apps that are being sold on other stores. This sort of exclusivity is

Honestly not much different to today. a) Apple, Google etc could just refuse to host any apps that are being sold on other stores. This sort of exclusivity is common place and legal. b) Larger developers who have their own agendas like Epic and their metaverse will run their own stores. c) Everyone else will stay with Apple/Google. The costs of running a third party store are significant and ultimately developers or consumers will need to pay for it. So either end users or developers will end up having to pay more for an experience that is far worse than what they have today. And if a) ends up true then developers would lose their biggest distribution channel.