Comment on The Epic question: How Google lost when Apple won | How is Google running an illegal monopoly with the Play store — while Apple’s App Store is in the clear?

• PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A monopoly is inherently abusive. It abuses centralized power to gain more power. But I would argue that Apple built their monopoly “honestly” from the ground up, and from day one the rules haven’t changed. Google started with an open platform, and sneakily changed the rules and made deals to get their monopoly.

  Both are objectively bad. But Google’s method was more open to legal scrutiny, in hindsight.

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  • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apple change the rules right under people’s apps all the time, in much more scumbag ways, e.g. theverge.com/…/apple-watch-swipe-keyboard-flickty…

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    • PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair, they do shit like that. But this case was about app stores specifically, and they haven’t allowed alternate app stores since day one.

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