Imagine if Apple tried to implement privacy labels in a multi app store world. Rather than complying with an action that benefits the consumer, Google and Faceb

Imagine if Apple tried to implement privacy labels in a multi app store world. Rather than complying with an action that benefits the consumer, Google and Facebook could work together to create an app store that doesn't require privacy labels and then only publish GMail and WhatsApp/FBMessenger to their app store, forcing me to download and use their app store or not use my e-mail or standard means of communicating with my friends. It becomes a race to the bottom, where rather than the app stores competing for consumers by improving features, the app stores compete for companies with apps at the cost of the consumer. You can see this pattern emerge across many marketplaces. Look at AirBNB, terrible customer experience because they are competing for hosts. Amazon turned one of the worlds largest stores into a co-mingled flea market. Because apple has a captive audience, apps have a choice to have access to apple customers or not. Apple does not have to have to make concessions to business interests they would if they had to compete with other app stores to attract apps.