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Is your position (that they should unbundle the App Store and OS) based on their market share or actual principles?

As in, do you think that console platforms should also unbundle those things to make it easier (or possible in some cases) to run separate app stores and/or apps on them?

Because, and maybe this is just me, I really don’t see what market share matters here. Certainly not as a comparison to MS of the 90s.

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I see an obvious benefit to having unbundled console stores -- if I could buy the game from steam, I could run the same game on whatever console I have

Then. They'd have to compete on the quality of the console itself, rather than exclusives or moats based on sunk costs in owning copies of games

Good question. I was thinking in terms of market share alone.

If phone OSs were a reasonably fragmented market, you as a phone buyer could probably choose a phone that doesn't restrict what software you can run and still meet your other requirements (e.g. tight OS & hardware integration). Also, as a software maker no single phone OS company would have much leverage over you.

But some of these things could also be argued on principle.

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