[dathinab]

No, this is a misconception.

There is no real choice except Android and iOs and you can't "carry over" apps (and often content in apps, too) which you have bough.

Also Phones are not cheap and you can't switch your phone os between them.

This means that there is defacto no free marked between iOs and Android (as you have no real choice and once you choose switching is problematic and expensive). So the only choice we have is to enforce a free marked IN iOs and Android.

Or with other words there is a marked for iOs apps and a different marked for Android apps. Treating them as one marked is ignoring how the world works 2020.

[scumbert]

I am talking about developers here, not Joe Schmo who lives his life in one ecosystem or the other.

[salawat]

True, but Markets aren't just constrained to specialists, and if by virtue of more people becoming developer-esque, more people are buying into there being an issue with Apple's business model, then there's an issue with Apple's business model.

We're just now breaking into more widespread adoption of microelectronics as a fact of life for the public where the newer generations have no concept of there not being these things. What was okay in the early adoption phase isn't once you start getting established.