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> They're not allowed on either app store

The app stores are monopolies. The FTC absolutely should be slapping them for half the stuff they're doing.

But the app stores still aren't natural monopolies. They wouldn't be monopolies if people could install apps the same way they do on desktops. There is no need to regulate their content, what's needed is to restore normal competition to those markets.

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>The app stores are monopolies.

Only on iOS. There are several alternative app stores for Android, and you can install apps the same way you do on desktops (after flipping a switch in settings).

Still a monopoly like that, see Internet explorer case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

Would have been true if the largest manfactureres of Android phones didn't put their own browser and other apps. Samsung has its own browser and Chinese manufacturers use Chinese browsers. So chrome is rarely the default in more than half the android phones releases every year.

> The app stores are monopolies. The FTC absolutely should be slapping them for half the stuff they're doing.

> There is no need to regulate their content

Is there or isn't there a need to regulate them?

That is at best a misreading of the parent comment. Try quoting whole sentences and see if you can identify the parts of the argument that you chopped out.

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