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by realusername 1005 days ago
> Isn't the principle that parties entering into an agreement voluntarily and with competition get to set their own prices?

The only change of pricing ever made within a decade was made because of a threat of an anti-trust lawsuit and copied word for word by Google almost instantly after that.

Safe to say that the competition is dead.

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I think your understanding of competition is a little warped or flawed. The mark of competition isn't that a company's price changed. It's that other people/companies were free to enter the market.

You are absolutely free to go and develop your own phone ecosystem and app store, or go provide your app development services elsewhere. That is competition. And that is what the court has found.

Competition is not that I need to give you more shelf space or a better price for selling something on my marketplace.