You're begging for a way to enforce capitalism while taking away Apple and Google's right to practice capitalism. You're not promoting this altruistically, you're promoting it because you want to make money. Why should anyone support your right to make money over Apple's or Google's?
> You can count the percentage of people that can do this on one hand.
Anyone can do it, so long as they have access to a search engine.
> The world doesn't owe you clean air, either. But thankfully we've decided to artificially limit business to make the world a better place.
You're arguing for this as a way to limit businesses in favor of your businesses, though. You're just passing the buck! What you're advocating for helps no one aside from you (and people in your profession) and hurts consumers.
I don't like using Google or Apple products, so I don't. Vote with your wallet, don't vote for taking away rights.
Capitalism and it's benefits isn't necessarily self-sustaining and enforcing in the same way that total democracy can still have a party participating democratically to end it.
If you allow every anticompetitive market practice depending on the sector you quickly loose the benefit of open competition that one might expect from capitalism.
> What you're advocating for helps no one aside from you (and people in your profession) and hurts consumers.
If people in his profession include the countless companies developing stuff for these platforms then obviously yeah and that's not a bad thing. If Google and apple can kill competition if they enter a market on their platform then that reduces competition. If they can use their platform to prevent competition in a segment of it where they are established then that stops competition. Competition serves the consumer but is not inherent. The high fees that google can ask due to their market dominance get passed on to the consumer and thus do not benefit the consumer. The market dominance is something they can retain and enforce with minimal competition due to a mix of their clout and anticompetitive practices.
This shit we have to put up with shouldn't be legal! I dream for the day that the DOJ forces Apple and Google to make an interoperable native platform. Or when it forces both to spin off their app marketplaces. Or requires them to allow easy installs from the web.
> People who want native apps from a source other than Apple or Google can pretty easily get them
That's not at all correct. You can count the percentage of people that can do this on one hand.
> The world doesn't owe you a business model, and you can't take away people's rights because you want a better way to sell your wares.
The world doesn't owe you clean air, either. But thankfully we've decided to artificially limit business to make the world a better place.