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Re:Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details t... by kelnos on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:48PM (#23568450)
I too feel a little weird about "iOS app ecosystem" as the definition of a market that matters for anti-trust regulation, but at the same time consider that smartphones are not fungible goods. People generally choose iPhone vs. Android for particular reasons, and then often stay on those platforms because of features that aren't available on the competing platform, or just because they've succumbed to ecosystem lock-in. Switching to the other platform isn't just a matter of swapping out a piece of hardware: it involves installing or finding workalike applications, often manually re-entering data, and sometimes losing access to DRMed purchases.

Given that, "iOS App Store" does start feeling like a market that should be regulated as its own entity.

Re:Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details t... by scarface74 on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:22AM (#23575376)
Name one popular app that is not cross platform? How many apps have people paid for on iOS that are not subscription based and work on both platforms? Most money from apps Ecome from in app purchases from whales of pay to win games or subscriptions. How much data would really need to be “manually re-entered”?
Re:Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details t... by kelnos on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:16AM (#23624033)
That's fair, but doesn't invalidate all the other reasons why switching from iOS to Android is prohibitively difficult. It's laughable to suggest there's no lock-in at all. And some people just like iOS itself.