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App Store is not a market and never has been. So the concept of monopolies and anti-competitive behaviour don't apply. It's why the courts treated Google diff
by threeseed 3y ago
App Store is not a market and never has been.
So the concept of monopolies and anti-competitive behaviour don't apply.
It's why the courts treated Google differently in their Epic case to Apple.
- ehaliewicz2 3y agoThis seems just completely false to me. People are exchanging currency for goods on the App store. Can you explain how that isn't a market?
- HDThoreaun 3y agoHow is the app store not a market?
- lxgr 3y agoThere is no doubt at all that both are markets. The only question is whether it’s in the public interest and compatible with the law to regulate them, and courts and governments around the world are figuring that out right now. Why the courts ruled differently for Google was that they had different deals for different participants in it, while Apple has a uniformly expensive deal for everybody.