Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
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Re: Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
#2Apple's market share is low enough that it may continue to be unchallenged by enforcing all its own apps to be the default apps. Antitrust will probably not apply to them, I suspect.
Re: Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
#3Apple needs to allow you to change the default apps (similar to how you can change the keyboard) for this argument to hold up.
Re: Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
#4> The message here seems to be that if companies don’t like Apple’s policies, they’ve got other options. Go find your riches on Android or make a Roku app. But developers have a huge financial incentive to be in the App Store. It’s often been reported that iOS users spend more money on apps than people with Android phones, and Apple leans on that advantage.
Apple's argument would seem to be that this financial incentive is the direct result of their policies, so forcing them to change those policies would reduce or eliminate this financial incentive.
It's a reasonable argument, although I think it's unknowable whether it's true.
Legally, it might not matter.
Re: Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
#5Apple's market share is low enough that it may continue to be unchallenged by enforcing all its own apps to be the default apps. Antitrust will probably not apply to them, I suspect.
The US government (for example) doesn’t care about Apple’s world wide market share, they care about the US.
And in the US Apple’s market share is MUCH higher.
Re: Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
#6Apple's market share is low enough that it may continue to be unchallenged by enforcing all its own apps to be the default apps. Antitrust will probably not apply to them, I suspect.
The US government (for example) doesn’t care about Apple’s world wide market share, they care about the US. And in the US Apple’s market share is MUCH higher.
Not even close to anti-trust triggering size though
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#7Relevant article by former App Approval Chief at Apple: https://medium.com/@phillipshoemaker/apple-v-everybody-59030...
Re: Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
#8Apple's market share is low enough that it may continue to be unchallenged by enforcing all its own apps to be the default apps. Antitrust will probably not apply to them, I suspect.
The US government (for example) doesn’t care about Apple’s world wide market share, they care about the US. And in the US Apple’s market share is MUCH higher.
Still 10% below Android though.
Re: Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
#9Apple's market share is low enough that it may continue to be unchallenged by enforcing all its own apps to be the default apps. Antitrust will probably not apply to them, I suspect.
This gets into an interesting consideration around what monopoly means. Up until now it's always been about market share, but the interesting trick apple has pulled is, while not having a great chunk of the market, they DO have a massive chunk of mobile app revenue, hence mobile devs so focused on iOS in spite of total available user base relative to Android.
Re: Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
#10Apple needs to allow you to change the default apps (similar to how you can change the keyboard) for this argument to hold up.
Also allow apps to allow purchases inside without going through Apple's in-app purchases. Maybe they need to decide on a case-by-case basis, or maybe only for apps for companies with a large external presence, but not being able to buy eBooks through the Kindle app, because Apple wants it to go through their own in-app purchases instead of Amazon's own payment gateway, is frustrating.