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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by Maursault on Monday April 24, 2023 @10:54PM (#35696042)
> How is a single company controlling more than half of the entire market not monopoly power?

AppStore is merely a package manager for iDevices. It is not it's own market any more than YUM is for RHEL or FreeBSD Ports is for FreeBSD. The market is software. Apple does not control half the entire software market.

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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by NekkoDroid on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @01:05AM (#35696700)
The difference is: on both all Linux distros I know and from as far as I know all BSD derivitives (except PS' BSD) you can compile and use software that doesn't need to blessed by Tim Apple, be it either through the AppStore or via you forking over money to compile on other Apple hardware with an Apple certified license.
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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by Maursault on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:00AM (#35700594)
Sign up for a free Apple Developer account, learn to use the tools, and you can compile and install all the software you want on your Apple devices.
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