I really dont think you have understood my answer - either becuase you won’t or just can’t understand it. Earlier a guy complained about his IPS being a monopoly in his area, and a more important case than Apple. But using your reasoning: there is nothing stoping another company or even himself investing $millions into building a rivaling infrastructure and then providing cheap (probably lower than cost) internet to his house - so what is his problem, right???
Elon Musk and Star-link (I believe that is the name) is aiming to solve that. Again, someone can move in the space (pun intended) and provide a solution to the problem. So long as no one is preventing it (another company) by illegal monopolistic means. So, yeah there is no problem. There was a case where an individual actually did setup his own ISP and ran fiber (on the poles) to the nearest ISP that was many miles away. He then distributed his connection to others in the town. The cost was high, but not insurmountable apparently, and for the cost he makes back a month. He seemed OK with doing it. Not all cases will be equal and or as easy. But, yes, you can do it.
Most modern monopolies are build on being successfull and developing the next big thing. Being successful is not the issue - but at some point the dominance one company have over the customers or other companies becomes to large, and then it becomes an issue.
Again, success is not illegal. Getting big is not illegal, they did nothing wrong to merit this action. Some people just don't like it. It's all thinking and feeling and opinion. Nothing based on past law and or regulation. If you operated a business and did nothing wrong, got successful doing it. And one day some politician or whatever decided I don't like it because well, I don't see any other competition in this space. Not that you did something wrong. Why would you continue to try? Why would you take the risk? Business is risk. Apple and or Google would have had nothing if they failed. No one would come and save them. They get it right, and we want to tear them down?
Again, they did nothing wrong. These rules are being made up to make what they are doing wrong. Which to me is BS.
Mobile devices has become a all dominant factor in todays world and Apple has therefore also become an all dominant power with its walled garden. Apple is destroying other companies being using the dominance of iOS in several ways, such as monopolistic price-setting
Google charges the same. And these two companies are not in it together.
Apples rules was:
Developer sets the price
70% developer 30% Apple cut to run the store - Since lowered to 15% for small devs making under a million p/y
No credit card fees (Apple takes care of that)
No Hosting Fees (Apple takes care of that)
No Marketing fees (apple takes care of that)
Paid Monthly
Most Apps are free, no charge to developer or customer (Apple takes care of that)
Just my opinion, but if In-App-Purchases are removed from Apple either totally or in part. What's to stop every single company/dev shop from not charging for any apps on the store (any App Store) and just moving to in-app-purchase to get the features for the apps that are free? So basically Apple does all that work above for free? Fair? I'm not one to think so.
, locking use of technology, and just copying/implementing features making whole companies/markets obsolete.
Locking use of tech has always been what Apple does. They don't play well with others. They go their own way almost all the time. Copy/Implementing features of others. Well to be fair, it happens to them too. they pay up when they get caught and they go after those that copy them.
There was several cases against Microsoft abusing its power and they didnt even have a walled garden in place.
They had well over 75% of the market as well. Very different set of circumstances. The walled garden is how Apple has historically operated. Not new, and not illegal. They have never been a monopoly or deemed one.
Saying that nothing is stoping Epic or other companies from just building a rivaling iOS platform is as stupid as asking someone to build his own ISP infrastructure because he is not happy with the current service/competition is his area
Both have been proved to be false. I'll have to hunt down that article of the man who literally ran fiber to the nearest ISP and then piggy backed off it reselling it to his neighbors. But, when the market was saturated with many different handset makers (mobile phones). Apple came in with hardware and an OS. No tackle keyboard (onscreen everything). No AppStore! Google and Android and what a sidekick type phone (can't remember exactly, but HTC something). Can't and won't are two separate things. In the US only NASA went to space. Now SpaceX and Blue Origin, Virgin Galatic in the UK. Don't tell me can't. No one wants to cause they fear losing. The risk is high but the reward could be more than worth it.
(Actually even more stupid, as mobile platform requires millions of users, phone manufactors and developers on board). As I said, there is a difference between been a fanboy and a sheep. For a fanboy it is okay to ask questions before bending over just because Apple ask you to, as a sheep you just do it. In the same manner it is okay to like the products but still ask questions about Apple policies.
All the sheep and stuff is fair. But, that's not the issue here. Just like I stated above, would it be fair if every app in the AppStore was free but, charged in-app-purchases to make it actually usable. While having a means in which to bypass Apple. Would that be fair? Would any government be stepping up to put a stop to it? I'd bet everyone would be fine with Apple spending all their money to build something for others to use for free. Should be a successful company just giving things away like that. Trusting that enough people will buy their stuff enough to support it.
90% of the apps on the store is free. They get paid by ads. If they use any in-app-purchasing is it so much to say, thank you Apple here is your 30% commission for suppling all the above? What should the price be, free? Barely enough to run the place? No price increases as well other price increases come down on Apple. They just eat the costs?
Just as only sheeps uses the term “we just like it that way” about everything Apple does.
some of us do like it the way it is. It works for us, you know the people that buy it. If we didn't like it, we would purchase something else. Why is your problem with this my problem? I don't have an issue with the 70-30 split and most apps being free. I don't have an issue with a developer getting 70% that otherwise would get what? nothing in a pirated world, or maybe half that in a retail store. And if developers really had an issue with that, it would not have gotten as big as it is now.
I have an issue with the idea that someone can go into a store, browse and pick something up off the shelf and go pay at a totally different register bypassing the store they are in. I think that sucks royally. I would challenge anyone to go to there local store for anything, and ask to pay the manufacture directly instead of the store and see how far that gets you. Or say, i bought this item online from the manufacture, here is the receipt, but I'm just going to take this item off the shelf cause it's faster, thanks bye!
Edit: You talk about increasing competition is the key for innovation. While supporting actions which only goal is to destroy all and have zero competition when users have walked inside the walled garden of Apple.
Let's not pretend that the walled garden of apple jumped out and sucked you in against your will. People have a choice. And they can choose to leave anytime they wish. And again, there is generally zero competition within any store. you want to use another store, you can go to another store. You don't like Apple's rules, you can sell you wares PC or Mac OS users, or if its a video game you can pick from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, PC or Mac.
