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by pjmlp 2058 days ago
They do more than gatekeeping and aren't the only ones doing 30%.
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cercatrova 2058 days ago
You seem biased in favor of Apple. Why is that?

> aren't the only ones doing 30%.

Again, just because "other people do it" does not a compelling argument make. It's just an "argument to the people" logical fallacy.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

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pjmlp 2058 days ago
Because I am no hippie pointing the finger to the man and they are entitled to their business.

Don't like it? Give your money to someone else and stop complaining.

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cercatrova 2058 days ago
If there are only two sellers of mobile apps, you can't just "give your money to someone else" because no one else exists. That's the essence of antitrust, whether it be monopoly, duopoly, or oligopoly. I'd agree with you if there were a free market of device OSes and app stores, but a market of only two is fundamentally unfree.
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pjmlp 2058 days ago
If there are two, there is someone else, basic English grammar rules here.

Then there are feature phones like those Nokias with KaiOS, Jolla, Tizen,... be the change you want the world to become, instead of giving the money and then feeling entitled to something it wasn't available right from the start.

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