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“Hold the world hostage”? Please. Developers can certainly choose Android to develop features that Apple prevents them from doing. If Apple was really holdin

• dns_snek 3y ago
  Holding the world hostage is exactly what this is and it already happens, most notably with browsers and how Apple drags their feet on PWAs, making them an non-viable alternative to apps. Consumers don't even notice, because progress which can't happen... doesn't happen, and there's nothing to see. Even if they knew, the app simply doesn't exist and there's nothing they can do about it. The DMA calls this out, explicitly: > Gatekeepers have a significant impact on the internal market, providing gateways for a large number of business users to reach end users everywhere in the Union and on different markets. The adverse impact of unfair practices on the internal market and the particularly weak contestability of core platform services, including the negative societal and economic implications of such unfair practices, have led national legislators and sectoral regulators to act. As for: > Developers can certainly choose Android to develop features that Apple prevents them from doing. You can't release something like a public transit app only on Android and you know it.