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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by lodovic on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:01AM (#26994324)
Say you buy a can of Coke at Walmart. Would Coca-Cola be allowed to print on that can that it can be bought for less at 7-Eleven?
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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by ClumsyPilot on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:03AM (#27005973)
Wallmart and Appstore are not equivalents:

I don't need to accept a huge licence agreement before I enter a supermarket

If I were to piss off their staff and get banned from Wallmart, they don't get to take away everything I bought from Wallmart in the past 10 years.

If I buy a game from Walmart, and the game sell in game items, I don't need to call wallamrt employee to come to my house to collect the money for that - that's effectively the epic lawsuit.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by thayne on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:35PM (#26998225)
The way I've seen the rules inforced (though inconsistently) it would be more like walmart not letting Coke put their website on the can, because you can buy coke directly from the website.
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