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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by friedman23 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @08:13PM (#29915471)
This isn't a free market. A free market would be that the user purchases the device and that they are free to do whatever they want with what they own, including installing third party stores.
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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by freediver on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @08:44PM (#29915770)
What you are describing could be called 'open source platform', free market is a different thing.
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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by friedman23 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @09:02PM (#29915887)
Read Adam Smith, monopolies and single market platforms are not a free market.
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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by freediver on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @09:16PM (#29915994)
Whether Apple is a monopoly that is still to be determined and entirely different discussion. If it is it would have much bigger problems that the one discussed here.

This discussion is about where Apple as a private company has a right to charge 30% for the distribution on its platform and I argue that it has every right to do so.

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