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AFAIU antitrust lawsuit triggers when you break an implicit agreement with customers i.e. breaking trust. But thats not what happened here. App Store is sole distributor of apps. Customers knows this. Customers may even rely on it.

So what gives ? Specifically what can a business in general do to avoid such fate ?

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> AFAIU antitrust lawsuit triggers when you break an implicit agreement with customers i.e. breaking trust.

Incorrect. Antitrust occurs when you violate the laws regulating use of market power, which have little to do with customer trust ("trust", in this sense, refers to a monopoly, not to consumer trust in the firm.)

A trust is a monopoly and has nothing to do with consumer trust.

Abd for it to beantitrust, it must be abused in some manner. This is in doubt.

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