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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by ghostwriter on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:35PM (#24193050)
Nobody forces anyone into interaction with Apple ecosystem. People want to get onto App Store because they know they can benefit from it, financially big. And they subscribe voluntarily by the most fair means of it, by trading their money in exchange for the service under the rules that are mentioned prior the transaction takes place.
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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by enragedcacti on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:46PM (#24193162)
By omitting details and framing each transaction as an isolated incident, you can make almost any monopoly or anti-consumer practice sound like just another business.

Nobody forces anyone into interaction with Carnegie Steel. People want to use their steel because they know they can benefit from it, financially big. And they purchase it voluntarily by the most fair means of it, by trading their money in exchange for the steel under the rules that are mentioned prior the transaction takes place.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by ghostwriter on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:26PM (#24193969)
so, where's the flaw? The fact that somebody sometime ago named another corporation a monopoly by the same ridiculous criterion as "too big" and discharged it, doesn't make it anyhow right. Was there gatekeeping from the government for new players to enter the same market? Any quotas or tariffs by chance?
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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by enragedcacti on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:17PM (#24194615)
> Was there gatekeeping from the government for new players to enter the same market?

That isn't what a monopoly is.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by ghostwriter on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:02AM (#24196938)
Artificial inability to enter the market with a competing product is literally in the definition of a monopoly.
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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by sudosysgen on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:13AM (#24195197)
In a completely free market, monopolies are natural outcomes of some circumstances.
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