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Re:Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-s... by Can_Not on Friday August 30, 2019 @08:48AM (#20838019)
While you are technically right that it is not a monopoly, it is an oligopoly, a term which implies it is likely to have the same issues as a monopoly while still having an insufficient number of competitors.

The problem compounds when Google and apple are both horizontal and vertical oligopolies.

If I complain that adwords scammed me (in a court of law), they could retaliate by terminating my GCE instances and gmail accounts.

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Re:Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-s... by bb88 on Friday August 30, 2019 @10:46AM (#20839111)
> If I complain that adwords scammed me (in a court of law), they could retaliate by terminating my GCE instances and gmail accounts.

That's different, Google search AFAIK is a monopoly. And an oligopoly by definition are not monopoly. If Google and Apple conspired together to prevent competition, that would be illegal.

But AFAICT, the remedy for the developer is to simply not develop on Android. You're not making a strong enough case here for what would appear to be an argument for government intervention.

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