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I better like the marketplace analogy: If I go into a marketplace, I can be told by merchants that we can make cheaper deals outside of the confines of a market
by madsbuch 3y ago
I better like the marketplace analogy: If I go into a marketplace, I can be told by merchants that we can make cheaper deals outside of the confines of a marketplace.
If you want to stick to the "store" analogy, they Apple also needs to handle support, return cases and a lot more financial risk – A store stocks their own inventories and does not just facilitate transactions between two parties.
The fact is that Apple store is not a store, it is a marketplace. And on a marketplace you can not censor people as easily.
- madsbuch 3y agothough it would be lovely to see apple buy 10.000 licenses to sell on their "shop"
- Aloisius 3y agoApple does handle returns and I'm not sure what support the average brick and mortar store offers. Stores don't necessarily own all their inventories (stock consignment) and some products are extremely low risk (e.g. phone cards, gift cards, digital goods, etc.) Calling it a marketplace seems odd considering unlike in traditional marketplaces, there are no competing merchants selling the same goods. There are no other merchants at all.