Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]
by pjmlp on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:59AM
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I am assuming that 99% of people on HN with opinions have zero understanding about law and how it applies to each jurisdiction across the globe.
Like your comment proves by the way.
Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]
by AnthonyMouse on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:10AM
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You're implying that it's wrong even though the economics of it are right and the sane legal systems are going look at the economics of it.
Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]
by pjmlp on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:18AM
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I am implying that anyone that is clueless about law has no place calling Apple whatever they feel like, just because it doesn't fit their world view.
Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]
by AnthonyMouse on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:29PM
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You still haven't given any argument for how they don't have a monopoly on iOS app distribution, or why iOS app distribution and Android app distribution should be considered the same market when they don't run on the same devices, the set of customers is effectively 100% non-overlapping, and they can't in any meaningful way be substituted for one another when a developer would still need both to reach the entire "market" if the market was defined to include customers on both platforms.
Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]
by pjmlp on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:55AM
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You don't get to define what is a monopoly to fit your world view.
The market is mobile phone devices and each device owner is free to set their own rules on their devices.
Apple is just a big supermarket chain, and like any supermarket chain gets to choose what comes on the shelves, don't like it? Go to another digital supermarket and get a law book for your jurisdiction.
It's like having a regional monopoly. Even if Google has 80% of the world market, if no one but Apple has a store in California, they have a monopoly in California. If you (or any of your customers) live where they have a monopoly (i.e. have an iOS device) then no other app distributor is reasonably available.
Obviously they could change that by not restricting iOS users from using other app distributors. They separated iOS app distribution into its own market explicitly and on purpose, but that's still what it is. "Windows app distribution" might be its own market but Microsoft has no monopoly on it.