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Comment by xkgt | Hacker News Reader

It is wild that Apple finds it cheaper to build and maintain different App store behaviors than to simplify and make alt app stores available in all markets. Other governments/markets don't care?

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It's a very slow process, first there is investigations, then legislation, then enactment, then enforcement which is separately a very slow process. It requires a lot of willpower to get and keep the ball rolling and in fact nobody has even achieved the full extent of what they require yet! The EU may still be years away from meaningful compliance, Japan has only taken baby steps forming a new bureau just to enforce compliance of two companies widely accused of malicious compliance.

And then there is additional discouragement and pressure in the form of sanction and trade deal threats for regulating American tech platforms.

> And then there is additional discouragement and pressure in the form of sanction and trade deal threats for regulating American tech platforms.

What people don't realise is that local companies aren't just competing with each other, they're competing against the US military.

It's vastly more profitable to maintain their monopoly on iOS apps and the 30% cut than to allow users to stop paying apple a cut of their transactions.

Who said it's cheaper?

"Other governments/markets don't care?"

its the least of their problems

There's an endless supply of bodies of water to be renamed.

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