[hrktb]

> It's their app store, their user base

There’s only one app store for Apple device and Apple fought tooth nails to ban jailbreking and forbidding any other app store like system.

There’s only one extensive app store for android and Google forced it down the throat of any maker that wanted Google’s service libraries which tons of apps learned to rely on.

Platform owners have been playing dirty in a lot of aspects, I think it’s game for service owners to find workarounds or get out of paying a cut to Apple or Google.

[scarface74]

How is this different from the console manufacturers? Yes even when you buy a physical disk the console maker get a cut.

[hrktb]

In principle consoles are not different, and lawyers looking at Apple/Google stores are also wondering what impact would a ruling in this field have on consoles as well.

I think nobody goes after consoles for now because there is no big enough business case getting hurt, and they’re kind of grandfathered in people’s perception.

[zamazingo]

> There’s only one extensive app store for android

This is incorrect. F-droid is quite extensive.

[arantius]

According to WikiPedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_app_distributio... ):

Google Play: 3.5 million apps App Store: 2.2 million apps F-Droid: 1,878

Several orders of magnitude off.