[markwkw]

I don't know. Look at hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations, many layered regions and municipalities, meddling politicians; agencies and bureaus involved in US market (or EU market).

If you wrote down all the rules of Google app store, including all their sweetheart deals (I'm sure there are many), and accounted for all departments within Google that influence AppStore, it would be massively smaller and way simpler conceptually. The scale of bureaucracy, inconsistency, bad incentives and accumulated cruft is just not comparable.

[amelius]

Try finding justice on a company-owned platform like Android's app store, or YouTube. I see a lot of stories titled "YouTube shut down my account for no reason", and I never see stories titled "The government shut down my business for no reason".

At least with the government you are backed by the rule of law. With companies it's always "tough luck, you agreed to the EULA".

PS: and never forget that government agencies gave us the Internet, so all those layers and layers of bureaucracy did give us something great and it isn't all bad even if you want to see it that way.

[realusername]

Except that in the appstore and playstore case, those rules do not matter and they are not bound to it, they can decide to cut you off from the mobile market at any point for no reason.