Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by Google234 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:13AM
(#24417375)
Apple store is on like less than 10% of phones to be fair
Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by jjcon on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:15AM
(#24417389)
> How many of those are installed on more than 1% of mobile devices
4/5 in the examples I gave.
Google, Apple, Samsung and Amazon all have decent market share.
Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by phaus on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:59AM
(#24417699)
Samsung's market is installed on a substantial percentage of phones but almost no one on any of those devices uses anything besides the regular Google Play store. So while you technically answered his question in the larger conversation Samsung's app store isn't a competitive alternative.
I couldn't find robust stats on Amazon's market share overall but I did find that they sold 5.3% of all tablets in Q3 2019. So if its true that the phone market is 20 times larger than that it would mean its unlikely that The Amazon App store is installed on 1% of all mobile devices.
Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by wruza on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:42AM
(#24418796)
So users do use playstore in the presence of the other store. Doesn't that contradict the argument that they are poor non-tech walled-gardened who cannot choose? This entire farce is about developers who want to control platforms they do not own, on devices they do not own, with users who do not even want to deal with them under rules other than playstore ones.
Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by asdfasgasdgasdg on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:20AM
(#24417428)
I am skeptical that Amazon has 1% market share. I found a datum that Samsung has like 25M MAU in the US, but I doubt that they do more than 1% of the total app transactions in the US. Maybe in Korea.
Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by jjcon on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:42AM
(#24417589)
> there are exactly two (AppStores)
> How many of those are installed on more than 1% of mobile devices (however broadly construed)?
> I doubt that they do more than 1% of the total app transactions
These goal posts keep moving
Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by asdfasgasdgasdg on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:13AM
(#24420144)
True, I incorrectly identified the important metric in my comment. However, my mistake does not change which metric is important.
Just to demonstrate that this is the variable that matters, consider the case where there are exactly three devices that have each of the other marketplaces installed on them, respectively. Would they present a meaningful competitive alternative to the big two?