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Arguably Apple should have nothing to do with this. Someone buys a phone from Apple, and now owns that phone. He wants to use his property to run some software. What should Apple have to do with this decision any more than Chevy should tell me what neighborhoods I should drive my car into?

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Not a fair comparison, this’s between developers and Apple, Apple doesn’t change you anything after you buy their phone.

The point is that Apple continues to make decisions FOR YOU after you buy the phone - and we aren't talking about where the settings screen is or the color of the icons, we are talking about who you are allowed to do business with -- and that is anticompetitive.

Just because you want to punt and say it's between the developer and Apple doesn't make it better. The point is that it shouldn't be.

It's like saying VAT and GST aren't charged on customers but on businesses.

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