So company creates phone , company builds software. How open and robust was the blackberry software market? Did they charge fees to third party developers. Let’s have free markets and let markets decide, or do we not believe in competition anymore?
Sorry. Factually incorrect. Apple had no competing product when tiles were sold at Apple stores. You do remember that airbags were released only this year?
Is the market the individual brand or the smartphone industry? I personally would like to shop on Amazon but allow me to get redirected to other stores to actually purchase the product. Stop the Amazon tax. Start a fair competition coalition now!
Apples product, apples specifications. Customers are free to choose android, windows phone, blackberry, Facebook phone, etc. the market will decide!
It really doesn’t matter how much better than the old way of doing things Apple’s App Store is. That’s not the issue. The issue is that Apple locked down the phone so that no software can be installed initially. Then, they decided to reverse course and allow software but only if you go through their App Store where they get to take a cut.
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Those regulators have their own interests in making those statements. I'll wait to hear what the courts say, particularly around how the platform became a unique "market". Considering I can walk into any Verizon or AT&T store and choose from a variety of smart phones by different manufacturers, I find that position disingenuous at best. I find the government taking control of a product away from the company that designs and produces it very troubling.
The primary way to purchase software prior to the iPhone was indeed buying physical software. No one (including Apple) is claiming digital software distribution didn’t exist, but they ARE saying that it was pretty irrelevant AND not very convenient. And it wasn’t. If the software you wanted was sold digitally you would first go to the companies site THEN you’d be redirected to the payment companies site (Kagi, et al). If you were lucky MAYBE you bought using that site before and had bothered to save your info, but probably not, so you had to put all your information in. Then you’d have to wait for the software key to be emailed to you, which if you were lucky took a few minutes, but could take hours or even more than a day depending. Comparing the convenience the App Store offered to the then state of digital distribution is like comparing cars to covered wagons.
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Nope, regulators world-wide are being very consistent on this - Android and iOS are not consumer-equivalent products that people can switch between. There is no "smartphone" market. They are each separate, self-contained markets for regulatory purposes, and the companies that own them are monopolists, who are not allowed to use their ownership of the markets to protect the businesses they conduct within those markets from external competition.
Not at all the same. Apple has created a gateway to its product (which it never had to do in the first place) and charging for using that gateway. It's not trying to control or impact any other company's product. And the only way the government would be involved is to force Apple to give up control of a product it created. That's a frightening prospect, because who will be next?
But governments take control away from the designers of everything you use.
The gateway service is a separate product / service that Apple sells to developers, which Apple protects from third party competition by its absolute control of the operating system. It's not really a very exotic issue.
I think we can all agree that the costs to run the app store are well below $72 billion, which is what they made in 2020.
So looking at your link provided all I saw was apps developed for the PC. I remember mobile apps only being offered by the cell carriers and if you wanted to get an app elsewhere you had to find some unknown WAP website to download it from and pay some unknown payment processor with your credit card.
Cost include development costs of the operating system and underlying software developers use.
Samsung smart TVs - locked down, LG smart TVs locked down, etc, etc, etc. your statement does not matter, it is Apple's product, if they want to sell it with a locked down ecosystem, they have every right to do that, and no one should care. If you don't want that, buy a competing product (Android?) And your part about taking a cut is ohhhh so wrong. Epic - buy Vbucks on our web site, download our app for free pay Apple $0. Spotify, get a subscription anywhere, download our app and listen to music - pay Apple $0, so where is Apple's cut?
