Well, it gets conveniently ignored anytime someone would bring up problems with said monopoly.
For example, the 30% Apple fee is a consequence of their anti-competitive market power.
And yet, if you start complaining about that, the response will be to pretend like the anti-competitive market power doesn't exist, and that you should just "go publish on a different app store" if you don't want to pay that monopolistic fee.
You can't have it both ways here. You cannot say that you like their monopoly power, and then pretend like it doesn't exist when the same exact market power allows Apple to extra 30% of the money from the app store market.
> Now, if I could trade Apple's monopoly....... Just to "liberate" iOS devices, though? Nah, I'd rather they leave it alone.
Well then you should blame Apple for the situation we are in now.
People wouldn't be forced to regulate Apple, if they hadn't been abusing their market power for a decade.
If Apple had instead chosen to lower their app store fee, to 5%, then we could have gotten the best of all worlds, which is a focus on privacy, and no monopolistic fees.
Its too late for that now. If only Apple hadn't fought these efforts so much, they could have given everyone a worthwhile compromise.
Well, it gets conveniently ignored anytime someone would bring up problems with said monopoly.
For example, the 30% Apple fee is a consequence of their anti-competitive market power.
And yet, if you start complaining about that, the response will be to pretend like the anti-competitive market power doesn't exist, and that you should just "go publish on a different app store" if you don't want to pay that monopolistic fee.
You can't have it both ways here. You cannot say that you like their monopoly power, and then pretend like it doesn't exist when the same exact market power allows Apple to extra 30% of the money from the app store market.
> Now, if I could trade Apple's monopoly....... Just to "liberate" iOS devices, though? Nah, I'd rather they leave it alone.
Well then you should blame Apple for the situation we are in now.
People wouldn't be forced to regulate Apple, if they hadn't been abusing their market power for a decade.
If Apple had instead chosen to lower their app store fee, to 5%, then we could have gotten the best of all worlds, which is a focus on privacy, and no monopolistic fees.
Its too late for that now. If only Apple hadn't fought these efforts so much, they could have given everyone a worthwhile compromise.