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Re:70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to av... by BrenBarn on Saturday August 23, 2025 @04:01AM (#44994202)
When two entities control essentially the whole "market" for mobile OSes and associated app stores, and use their position to force their app stores on everyone, you no longer have a market. If we just forcibly split Google and Apple into smaller companies with separate app stores then maybe we could see what markets would do.
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Re:70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to av... by roflyear on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:06PM (#44998286)
Third party app stores exist, and they work on android.
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Re:70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to av... by BrenBarn on Sunday August 24, 2025 @02:23AM (#45001852)
But the problem is that when everyone has gravitated to the two biggest app stores, there's no scope for market competition. The point is not just to have third-party app stores, it's to not have huge app stores that capture the whole user base.
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