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Because they have a monopoly on App Stores on iOS devices

Edit: clarification of Apple’s monopolising

Is Wal-Mart a monopoly too, since I’m not allowed to walk in and set up my own shelf of goods to sell? Serious question

If we are going down this line, I can also make some new arguments. Why do you think MS bundling IE was bad then, sure they had more marketshare than iOS but they were just improving the end user experience and now every platform comes with a browser by default.

That’s the wrong comparison. In this context your opportunity is to create an entirely new supermarket in the same country.

No one can create a new App Store on iOS devices.

The equivalent would be buying an Android phone, which many people do (in fact more than have an iPhone).

I see that as equivalent to opening your Wal-mart competitor in a different country... there’s no competition.

Apple does not have a monopoly on phones. Far from it in fact.

If you are referring to the App Store itself well no hardware device I can even think of, apart from a computer, allows competing stores.

Android?

Yeah, apart from installing APKs from the internet, you also have F-droid which is an entirely separate app repository, along with official stores from Samsung, Amazon and other OEMs.

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