[minhazm]

I think in the case of Apple it's more difficult to challenge due to the existence of Android. iOS doesn't even have 50% of the market mobile OS market share globally. You can argue Apple has a monopoly on their own products, but then we'd need to also discuss the same for Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, and any other device that has its own marketplace.

[midoridensha]

I'm not sure about the stats on gaming consoles, but Apple has over 50% marketshare in the US last I checked, and we're talking about US law here so US marketshare is really more important than how many Android phones people in India and China have. So having a majority of the market which almost everyone these days buys from (almost everyone has a smartphone now, not like gaming consoles which are a niche market), and then forcing everyone with an iDevice to use the Apple App store, is a clear monopoly unlike some gaming console that a small single-digit percentage of the population (or less) owns, and competes with 2 other big competitors, is not the same.

[neop1x]

It is not just about AppStore fees but also about the fact that you are forbidden to use any other store to buy/download apps from and you are forbidden use any 3rd-partty payment processor for payments inside your app. They force you to use their systems with 30% cut. That feels anti-competitive quite a lot!

[Closi]

Well that's presumably why Apple will allow sideloading in the next version of iOS.

(i.e. in an effort to demonstrate competitiveness)