[tsycho]

You can do all sorts of "monopolistic abuse" on your platform as long as it is small and inconsequential. No one cares, even if it was illegal, though it mostly is not.

But the rules and scrutiny changes once you become large enough to be "considered" a monopoly i.e. once your decisions and policies start affecting a significant portion of the market/ecosystem, then your policies are going to be subject to new regulation.

Google supporting side loading from the very beginning was a smart idea, even if its too complex and scary for the majority of Android users. They should have done the same for payments.

[majani]

Sideloaded apps can adopt any payment system they want

[askafriend]

> You can do all sorts of "monopolistic abuse" on your platform as long as it is small and inconsequential.

This statement feels like an oxymoron.

[CRConrad]

> > You can do all sorts of "monopolistic abuse" on your platform as long as it is small and inconsequential.

> This statement feels like an oxymoron.

Only if one lacks the imagination to expand "monopolistic abuse" (note the quotes) into "abuse that would be 'monopolistic' if the perpetrator were big enough".