Xbox has a monpoly on their game store. Sony has a monpoloy on their game store.
Come on - is this argument going to be used for all these too? Walmart has a monopoly on what sells in Walmart.
Come on - is this argument going to be used for all these too? Walmart has a monopoly on what sells in Walmart.
If there were basically only Wall-Mart and Target to buy stuff from, and you had to commit to one for 2-5 years every time, you bet they should be under heavy scrutiny.
Sony and Microsoft are a better comparison, but different because 1) their consoles are huge loss leaders, phones are not and 2) they are way less essential and used by an order of magnitude less people than phones.
Apple has become essential and trusted in part perhaps because it has exercised near iron control over almost all aspects of their platform.
This is false equivalence
2. I have installed android apps from F_-droid/Samsung app store or even Vivo app store
3. I have directly installed apks which didn't appear on play store directly from the internet
Where is my false equivalence? Pray tell me?
Google makes it impossible for apps to run without play store but I've used 0 google apps on android for 1yr and lived easily with 0 issues
Remove apple's app store, I dare you and then tell me you can live for one year.
Apple has monopoly on app store.
Walmart can't be compared.
Google has technically enforced monopoly and which I oppose. I never said google play store isn't a monopoly.
Are you sure you know what false equivalence means?
If I buy Apple phone I can't sideload app. At all.
How ia this not a monopoly.
Also why you bring xbox into picture. It's a gaming console not a general purpose device ppl use 4+hrs in a day.
They can have their cut buthe issue that you're ignoring is that they don't allow side loading and that they can randomly kill any app they want. Like they have done in the past and small developers don't have the money Epic does
That is the relevant comparison here, if Epic want to provide Fortnite on iOS they HAVE to use the app store and associated requirements. If they want to provide it on XBox, they pay a licensing cost for the proprietary tech they leverage from Microsoft. But they can choose to sell the game on Amazon if they want.
The amount of control console manufacturers exert over the games allowed on their platform is not dissimilar to the Apple and its App Store.
Look at the PS5: the ability to put a disk in is a legacy that's clearly going away by Sony making it an option you'll have to pay extra for. The entry level model is digital only, for better or worse.