So I see this as 2-sides of the same coin. From the developer's perspective, they can choose which platforms to develop. As a consumer, if you have chosen iDevice, then you can only purchase from the one single store. However, you did make that decision on your own. Corp making you use iDevice, then why are you loading apps onto it that the company did not provide you in the first place?
Do I have a third mall to choose from? Or can I set up a third mall ? What is the market entry barrier for a third mall ? Are these Mall a necessity in the community?
I wish people would stop using over simplified analogy.
I’m a consumer. I have many, many apps installed on my iPhone, and for the pretty much all of them I’ve paid $0.
Your issue exists only with paid apps. Apple is providing you the infrastructure and means to distribute your software. It makes sense to me that they get a cut.
And it also makes sense to me that you have to go through them. I specifically bought an iPhone because Apple seems to actively regulate what apps are allowed in the App Store while favoring customer privacy and security.
It’s interesting to me that your arguments against Apple are the specific reasons I chose an Apple device.
>I specifically bought an iPhone because Apple seems to actively regulate what apps are allowed in the App Store while favoring customer privacy and security.
That is perfectly acceptable. Except when they ban it for competitive advantage. Which is the whole point of the discussion. And Apple even wrote it in their email as such.
Firstly, there's the web. Secondly, Android allows you to create alternative app stores and install them, or install apps entirely outside app stores. Thirdly, there were and still are competitors to both Android and ios, the fact that they suck and nobody uses them is not Apple or Google's fault. Finally, many people live in places where there are only one or two large malls.
Android exists
> I also don’t think this analogy scales very well since many stores operate both in and out of closed shopping centers. Including Apple’s stores.
How is the scalability of the analogy relevant?