>You might want to hold off on the ideological rant and re-read. I think cageface was talking about application markets. The same hold true for application mar

>You might want to hold off on the ideological rant and re-read. I think cageface was talking about application markets. The same hold true for application markets. In any market where money are involved and parties with interests of their own can get a stronghold on the rules, the results are the same. >I didn't know Google was using their market to bail people out and wage a secret resource war. Well, pushing their own apps to users with "picks" and front-page promotion is akin to a bailout. They can restrict apps that compete with their core businesses in a snap, they can change the rules of the game anytime, etc. They use it to do whatever offers them a competitive advantage. Apple's marketplace is an even better example, as it is more closed. Google cannot close the Android marketplace at the same level, because they cannot do all the stuff Apple pulls and still attract developers away from more lucrative iOS at the same time (developers are the "scarce resource" here). Btw: "ideological rant" implies that something I said re: "free markets" does not hold true and I say it because of my ideology. Can you point to it? Else it's not "ideological", it's mere empirical observation.