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Receiving 1000 euros without having any real work or accountability is the epitome of free profit. No wonder these platform gatekeepers are fighting so hard to maintain it (at the cost of you, the consumer).

And yet people (in general) just dont care, because they don't truly feel the pain until it's too late - issues like privacy and such are like that.

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It's the arrogance. "You wouldn't have made 10 euros if I didn't give you the storefront and the one click install". Unfortunately they are right about this too. Why would they then also provide customer support that costs them money. They have enough "happy" customers as it is. Literally millions of apps are there.

so why doesn't this happen on the PC?

The fact is, google engineered their app store to be monopoly, following apple's model (which is also engineered - they had more foresight about it).

There are no good artificial monopolies, and natural monopolies should be regulated to prevent undue influence (and unwarranted profit).

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