App stores are monopolies, and their governance leaves much to be desired (as is the subject of this article).
I'm fine paying the AWS tax. It's a generic utility more or less and I can just as easily use Azure or Google (assuming you're not baked into certain offerings, but that's out of scope and honestly is a choice.)
If you want on Android there's no choice. You play by Google's rules and pay their tax.
People get up in arms when ISPs try to pull this (net neutrality). This is the same pattern. Phones, OSes, etc. should be "dumb" pipes. (The analogy isn't elegant here, but you get it.)
So do you feel the same way about console makers? Every game that ships for any console has to be approved by the console maker - including physical media. It’s been that way since the 80s.
That is a huge claim, thrown around by you with no backing. You could get a few economists to discuss that for ages without reaching a conclusion.
Unless you're talking about the layman's definition of monopoly, which means "whatever I want it to mean".
This is particularly relevant when there's the Amazon app store, and app preloads, and the Korean app store, and Fortnite isn't available on the Play store.
And that's before we get into the fact that iOS competes with Android, and that includes the app stores. This would be like complaining that to get a product to be sold by Walmart, you need to get Walmart to sell it.
No matter how you look at it, consumers never had so many choices, prices have never been this low, and app distribution has never been so easy.
> Google is dominant in the markets for ... app stores for the Android mobile operating system.
Did you even read my comment? It's literally exactly what I said. I gave two examples of a market and two of a commodity. Maybe you need to go read what a monopoly is instead of assuming others don't know what they are talking about (both me, and the EU, clearly)
EU ruled on it. You are wrong. Maybe you need to go read some actual law instead of hbr...
The market is the common market, the commodity is android apps. Just like I said, just like the EU said. As for defining "arbitrary markets", I am not the one who described the appstore as a 'market' - that was google.
Go try your inflated ego elsewhere, i'll just call you out on your BS.
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Yeah, because laws protecting inefficient business are great for society and consumers.
No business "deserves" protection. Consumers do, but not business.