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by ossyrial 814 days ago
> It just seems really far fetched to me if you were to apply this logic to other industries- eg “movie theaters must let you play any movie, not just the movies they want!” Or “movie theaters must allow you to bring your own popcorn or allow competing concessions vendors!”

If a local movie theater doesn't play the movie you like, you can go to a competitor. If no such competitor exists, and movie theaters would be essential to daily life, such a method would make more sense. The DMA targets "gatekeepers", ie not local movie theaters, but enormous companies that have done their best to entrench their market position by making competition difficult or impossible. I would keep that in mind when comparing to other industries.

You can of course buy an Android, and I am not an expert on the DMA or economics, but the playfield of a group of local movie theaters is wildly different from Apple's Apple Store (or browser, or Apple Music store, etc).