[wayneftw]

> the benefits of a single-vendor app store (of which there are a significant quantity).

I'd say the great majority of those benefits are going to Apple.

There's nothing that Apple does in their app store that a third party app store owner couldn't do. Anyone can curate apps.

As a customer of the Apple app store, I've absolutely experienced the detrimental effects of Apple's behavior. For one thing, I can't build software for my own device because Apple is too concerned about losing control. There are also whole categories of software that I simply cannot have because Apple won't let them be sold in their store.

They already lost the anti-trust case to decide if they can be sued again by customers. I hope they lose the next one too.