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You're missing: Apple: iOS only on iPhone. No way to get one without the other. Google: Android is open source and everyone can build their own hardware. Play
by skydhash 3y ago
You're missing:
Apple: iOS only on iPhone. No way to get one without the other.
Google: Android is open source and everyone can build their own hardware. Play Store is optional for manufacturers.
- ehsankia 3y agoSo by enabling dozens of hardware companies to literally exist and make a ton of money, they are a monopoly? So they're being punished for being open and sharing their OS with others?
- skydhash 3y agoNope, it's for blocking others to create alternative play stores on non-google devices.
- remram 3y ago> Play Store is optional for manufacturers. Wouldn't that make it less of a monopoly then?
- skydhash 3y agoNot when you're paying for it to be non-optional.
- remram 3y agoSomebody else could pay them to put their store on? I don't understand. The fact that you get to make a deal for money seems strictly more free-market than the alternative.
- skydhash 3y agoAs someone living in a third world country and seeing that happening in many sectors, it's the second quickest way to market degeneration (the first is straight up threats of violence). You really do not want people paying to block competition from arising.
- remram 3y agoYou would rather have them block competition without paying? I really don't understand. Or are you saying the iPhone app store has competition?
- bloppe 3y agoGoogle pays for the OEM to pre-install the Google Play store, not for them to disallow alternative stores. "Paying for it to be non-optional" is a bit misleading. Users always have the option.
- piperswe 3y agoIIRC, manufacturers are required to install Play Services on either all of their devices or none of them. That's a pretty important anti-competitive bit.
- _thisdot 3y agoSo Google is free to block third party App Stores on a Pixel?