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by shrewduser 1350 days ago
That's missing the point, Apple owns the platform and are using that dominance to push people out while pushing themselves in.

Using your dominance in one industry like that could fall afoul of anti monopoly laws.

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> That's missing the point, Apple owns the platform

People make a lot of to-do about it, but, that's not really an unusual thing in the market anymore. Sony has exclusive control of their store, does not permit sideloading, and no, the hardware isn't subsidized.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/325504-sony-finally-turns...

Regardless of whether you feel that's also bad, it goes to establish that this is not unusual or particularly noteworthy behavior.