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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:42PM (#38616432)
> At one point I had both an Apple and a Google Android phone.

What percentage of people do you suppose carry two different phones in their pockets? Is this something you reasonably expect the majority of people to do?

> Apple preventing other app stores on iOS is more like Starbucks preventing Peet's from coming into its stores to sell its coffee.

Just look at your own words. Preventing other stores is like preventing competitors from selling in your store?

Preventing other stores is preventing other stores. You can put whatever you want in your store, they put what they want in theirs, and the customer gets to choose where to get their app.

Preventing the customer from using the other store is the anti-competitive thing being objected to. It doesn't need an analogy, that's literally what it is.

Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by sidlls on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:34AM (#38627907)
It's not preventing other stores period. It's preventing other stores in their store. You're arguing against a point I didn't make.
Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:47PM (#38633915)
I don't think Apple should sell other stores within the App Store. However, I should be able to install unapproved apps/stores some other way.
Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @06:03PM (#38635480)
The issue is that "their store" is the only way to install things on your phone. You're trying to set up a catch 22 where the only way to install a competing store is from an existing store, theirs is the only existing store and competing stores aren't allowed in it.

It is anti-competitive to prevent competing stores. How you do it is irrelevant.

Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by johnnyanmac on Thursday December 14, 2023 @03:31AM (#38639118)
>It's preventing other stores in their stor

and their OS. I don't care if they allow whatever on their store. I would like the option to go to other stores or even sideload my own apps without the store intervention. That's right now impossible without a) hacking the device or b) being a dev working on an app.