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Re:American tech giants are making life tough for startups by Scarblac on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:16AM (#17225933)
The fact that iOS and Android are the only smartphone OSes did force you to do that.

Unless you mean that you could have made a competitor, but that's inane -- that's a completely different market, with huge barrier to entry.

Apple is using its huge market position in one area (smartphone OSes) to give itself a huge advantage in another (music apps). That's the sort of thing companies have got huge fines for in the past, or were broken in parts for.

Re:American tech giants are making life tough for startups by ttoinou on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:40AM (#17228159)
You can have alternative app store on Android there's no technical limitations, right ?

And at some point you could jailbreak iPhone and iPod Touch and crack apps but no real alternative market rose up