Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps

Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by Natanael_L on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:38PM (#19050600)

Apple completely forbidding the availability of certain types of software on their devices from third party developers? Not anticompetitive? Although sure, in this particular case it wasn't because of the type of app, but it still has the same effect because certain apps ARE forbidden from the store, and this does indeed mean that nobody can effectively offer such apps because of Apple's rules

There's no actual legal requirement that your company offers the same service that you use your market control to prevent your competitors from offering.

This is especially relevant in the markets where Apple has a significant market share (USA).

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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by CPLX on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:34AM (#19053102)

It’s not a legal thing. If you think it is at least try to cite the general area of law.

You can create devices and sell them and not make them compatible with other companies products if you want. It’s true from printer ink to PlayStations.

The only issue would be market share and monopoly problems, which given that Google’s alternative platform has 54% of the market is totally irrelevant here.

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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by mercutio2 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @09:10PM (#19051011)

Nothing about this maneuver has caused people to be forbidden from installing apps on their own devices.

A convenient and inexpensive mechanism for installing apps to lots of other people’s devices has, however, been revoked.

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