The Apple/Google marketplace rules are common-sense, and address legitimate concerns. I moderate /r/androiddev, and we get at least 10 posts per week that are basically "I make a living from Android apps and Google has banned my developer account and denied my appeals". There needs to be some kind of public check on this behavior when livelihoods are at stake, and I don't trust either company for a second when they say this will ruin their app stores.

Yeah that's a great point. If bundling IE with Windows was an anti trust issue back in the 90s, I don't understand how totally locking down your ecosystem on mobile can possibly be allowed.

That doesn't require new regulations, though. Just need to enforce the existing law.

You have the freedom to chopse between 4, oops, 2, totally locked down ecosystems.

The trouble is 9 out of 10 of those people will have been pushing the boundary in some way and probably deserve their treatment. Open the app stores up and they will become a cesspit.

Quite a lot of complains about GDPR were pure hysterics.

Only because the regulators have taken an extremely soft approach to enforcement.

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