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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by dlivingston on Thursday April 23, 2020 @01:11PM (#22958250)
The software corollary would be that Apple can no longer host GarageBand and Keynote on the App Store, and Google can no longer host GMail or Google Docs on the Play Store.
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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by rsanek on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:23PM (#22959191)
I think that's a great call-out. It's interesting that we don't see the same problem in app stores -- probably because there's not much profit motive for apps like there is for general retail.
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