It looks like Apple has full dominance over how revenue gets distributed. They can squeeze their suppliers, they can squeeze their app developers (who used to b

It looks like Apple has full dominance over how revenue gets distributed. They can squeeze their suppliers, they can squeeze their app developers (who used to be called "partners"), and they decide on the price that end-users pay for the device. I know this is a niche read, but my understanding of "Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox" [1] by the "new" (2021) chair of the FTC would be that this is indicative of Apple being anticompetitive and, thereby, indirectly harming the consumer and market fairness. Relevant quote from that article: "the company has positioned itself at the center of Internet commerce and serves as essential infrastructure for a host of other businesses that now depend on it. This Note argues that [..] market dominance pose anticompetitive concerns that the consumer welfare framework in antitrust fails to recognize." That was written to be about Amazon, but it also fits Apple here. And, I mean, it's pretty obvious that app prices have to go up eventually if you force developers to pay extortionately large fees like 30% or 27%. [1] https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...