>But it's not a store. It's software; Apple ... requires you to pay the surcharges in their mandatory App Store. So is it a store or not? >And every single on

>But it's not a store. It's software; Apple ... requires you to pay the surcharges in their mandatory App Store. So is it a store or not? >And every single one of those companies competes under fair pretenses with their publishing partners. Apple doesn't. That's why they're singled-out. How so? What is Apple doing that those companies (Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony) don't do for their hardware platforms? The certainly "[charge] developers to use their developer tools and then additionally [require developers] to pay the surcharged in their mandatory [store]." So what's different? How are they competing under fair pretenses (a phrase which I admit I'm having trouble parsing the meaning of), but Apple isn't?