Argument holds validity, not! > The company in its argument to the EU competition enforcer said it operates five App Stores on iPhones, iPads, Mac computers, A

Argument holds validity, not! > The company in its argument to the EU competition enforcer said it operates five App Stores on iPhones, iPads, Mac computers, Apple TVs and Apple Watches, with each designed to distribute apps for a specific operating system and Apple device. This is absolutely true. Each OS has a different set of apps. And the catalog is different for each OS. And this will now bite them hard. MacOS has alternative app stores from third parties. iPhone does not have an alternative app store. So iPhone is not following the same rule. Same argument goes for the iPad. And if a simple OS filter can dictate the "number" of app stores Apple maintains, then allowing third party app stores is just another filter away. A new app store by --Company X-- can be added with its own catalog of apps and curation on the front page as well as its own search engine and own roster. This will bite them hard.