To take it to the antitrust level may require confounding variables. Whatever Apple's status is when it comes to a monopoly, they already have enough meaning in

To take it to the antitrust level may require confounding variables. Whatever Apple's status is when it comes to a monopoly, they already have enough meaning in DoJ's eye that they currently have an antitrust case against them. I suspect it would take only a few small additional variables to trigger an anti-trust issue when it comes to forcing payment forcing. What those could be, I don't know. Agreements involving a payment processor? The point is its a small step away. What they are doing now is extremely anti competitive and it would not require much to push things over the edge. The original post indicates that a link in an app had another link in it for something that users could initiate a purchase through. What would happen if Google forced all indexed sites to go through Google Checkout and on non-compliance wiped all references and sites that linked to other payment processors from their search results? That wouldn't fly. Is the only difference that this is Apple's App Store and Apple is not a monopoly?