Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]
by Nasrudith on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:25PM
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The companies running it have their own stake in it as well - especially Apple since curation is part of their business model. There is no entitlement to a business model nor market - as tempting as a given juicy market may be.
The alternative to ownership is an absurdity like gmail can't block spam because "antitrust".
Cool, but some of the world's largest companies evidently care enough about the platform to develop for it anyways–or feel the need to do so. When you have a party that controls access to such a large market, then telling people who develop for that platform that it's their fault that they decided to do that is basically victim-blaming.