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Re:US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple s... by hnfong on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @11:33PM (#39023351)
All you can argue for is that Apple is the most popular iOS vendor by a large margin and hence a monopoly in the iOS market.

You still can't say Apple is a monopoly by being the second most popular in the smartphone OS market...

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Re:US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple s... by lxgr on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @11:55PM (#39023472)
That's exactly what I'm arguing for. Two competing (commercial) smartphone OSes are probably just fine! Much more than that would probably make it uneconomical for developers to provide native apps for all of them, unless they're API compatible.
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