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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by syshum on Sunday May 03, 2020 @05:10PM (#23061876)
>>It's just incredibly hard and not worth it to start an alternative legit store unless you are huge

Even amazon failed at this, so it is not just incredibly hard, the road blokes Google puts in place for people wanting to create another store is defacto impossible. Further they they are more extreme then what Microsoft did in the 1990's with IE that caused an AntiTrust violation and they were forced to easily allow other browsers and allow them to be changed as the default

I am not sure why Google can get way with what they do, even less sure how Apple gets away with it

Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by newen on Sunday May 03, 2020 @06:26PM (#23062395)
Guessing tech companies learned their lesson in the 90s and started sending lobbyist to Washington.