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For many of us that is a feature, not a problem.
I've seen many things described as a feature but platform monopoly is a new one, unless 'many of us' in this case means 'Apple shareholder'
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Well they can do all that with a 10% fee too. The author is contending that by adding those restrictions and a high 30% fee, Apple is acting like a monopoly - it's their way or the highway.
This is their platform... maybe the gov can make this a legal monopoly like the NFL. And, everyone gets the same % rate, same rules, and no apple competition in apps. Same for Google...
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You can still have what you want and give people other options. It's called choice. We deserve to be able to choose
You can choose, go and choose one of the other 70% of the phones on the market.
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Because the government should not have unilateral power over a platform you've poured your own time, money, and effort into developing. That would be theft. I am honestly amazed that people are still in favor of gross government overreach in the era of Trump.
You can say the same about Ma Bell, or Standard Oil. The pre-edited version of the original post asked the ludicrous question " So now we’re going to have governments design the software in our phones ", so he got a ludicrous answer in kind. But in theory, if Apple's control of the App Store platform constitutes a monopoly, it would not be gross government overreach to pursue antitrust, as it has done historically, e…
But it's not a monopoly. The vast majority of the "app store" ecosystem is the Play Store. Apple's "App Store" is a minority player.
Otherwise you could arbitrarily divide any platform recursively until something is a monopoly in need of getting regulated.
As a consumer, I am 100% in favor of the way run the app store. I don't want to give random apps my credit card. I don't want to have 18 accounts to keep track of. I don't want to have to call telephone support to cancel my account. I don't want malware in my apps. I don't want apps to have my email if they don't need it. I don't need another middleman for content companies license and distribute. Everything Apple is…
Genuine question: Why does this matter? I see 0 problems with Apple having a "walled garden." It's their product and their platform so they should be able to decide what gets supported and developed for it. I personally don't like how Apple conducts their business so I just don't use Apple products and that's that.
Because it makes apps more expensive.
If apps being more expensive is really the only problem then it seems like the problem fixes itself.
Genuine question: Why does this matter? I see 0 problems with Apple having a "walled garden." It's their product and their platform so they should be able to decide what gets supported and developed for it. I personally don't like how Apple conducts their business so I just don't use Apple products and that's that.
If you think I'm overblowing things, try finding Signal in China's AppStore.
Sorry folks, that's not how Sherman Act works. So long as there are enough movie theaters in town it's not a "monopoly", and a non-existent monopoly cannot be abused.
The US congress could, of course, rewrite the law (as they did to pass the Sherman Act in the first place), but until such day Apple is not a monopoly in the US.
I guess this would be great, if it were true. There are over two million competing apps in the market [1], and the vast majority are priced ridiculously competitively at less than a dollar each [2]. That's the average cost, not the median, which would be significantly lower.
I'm sure proton isn't happy about this, but considering the ridiculously high salaries app developers are able to command [3] but the market doesn't seem to agree with their assessment.
Now, this may be more true about app companies, but the numbers there tell a different story. Based on this analysis [4], the thing killing them isn't the developer fees, its that its ridiculously hard to make any sort of living if your only product is a phone app. The majority of apps simply make no money at all. Adding 30% to 0 doesn't do much for anyone.
[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263795/number-of-availab...
[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267346/average-apple-app...
[3]: https://www.businessofapps.com/app-developers/research/ios-a...
[4]: https://medium.com/@sm_app_intel/a-bunch-of-average-app-reve...