In a world where Amazon, Meta, Google, Wal-Mart, Time-Warner, Comcast, etc exist, you think Apple is the most anti-competitive?
In a world when you can't even hint at the existence of a payment mechanism outside the App Store to get subscriptions?
It's not the most anticompetitive but it's definitely competing for the title in big tech.
PWAs were never alive to begin with.
If they were there would be amazing world-shattering and paradigm-changing PWAs on Android which holds 71% of worldwide market share.
Oh wait. There are still none. For reasons obvious to anyone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34517503
If you sell your product in Walmart they basically own everything about it. They deem how you make your product, the supply chain, the prices you charge, everything
And they use this incredibly granular level of control to run out any possible competition
Oh wait...
Fry's Electronics closed completely, while Best Buy keeps closing stores and laying people off at an accelerated rate[0].
Local grocery stores are almost extinct, as Walmart[1], Amazon, Kroger, and Albertson's crowd out or buy out everyone else.
It's a serious problem, your sarcasm notwithstanding.
0. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/business/best-buy-store-closu...
1. https://ilsr.org/walmarts-monopolization-of-local-grocery-ma...
1. There's no such thing as PWA. There are a dozen or more standards, and everyone selects a different set of them to pretend they are oh so crucial.
2. Safari has supported the vast majority of standards that even Google deems as crucial for PWAs
3. Many of the "standards" some people on HN want are Chrome-only non-standards that are also opposed by Firefox
4. Actual people couldn't care less about PWAs because: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34517503
Was that a problem before?
https://www.freepress.net/blog/net-neutrality-violations-bri...
Wal-Mart might be the world's foremost practitioner of predatory pricing, not to mention the control they exert over their suppliers.
How did Epic fair trying to get around the Play Store?
Hmm, point. People tend to give video game systems more of a pass for historical reasons.
> How did Epic fair trying to get around the Play Store?
I assume they distributed non-Play Store APKs and it all quietly worked without any drama - that's how it is for Amazon, and how it's meant to work.
They are more like big city gangsters willing to do business with whomever as long as you pay them protection money, while Apple's ecosystem is like a gated community where you get shot at the door if you even so much as look like you can't afford to get in.