>Of course, this may change in the EU due to the “Digital Markets Act”, but this is new.
That's exactly why it should change and why Apple(and Google) knows the winds are changing sooner or later.
>Bigger companies getting better deals has always been the reality, due to volume discounts.
That works in retail where I can get a volume discount for buying 2 million tonnes of bannanas, but this logic doesn't apply to digital markets which scale much more effortlessly and cheaply regardless of scale meaning steep discounts for big players are somewhat counter intuitive.
>We have a different idea about what the free market is.
The free market means that if I want x tonnes of bannanas to buy or sell, I can choose which supplier or to whom, and at what price to buy/sell them.
In the mobile digital markets you have no such freedom of choice. It's either Apple on the iOS market or Google (minus sideloading) on the Playstore, that's it. They're two monopolies with no competition, not a free market.
That's exactly why it should change and why Apple(and Google) knows the winds are changing sooner or later.
>Bigger companies getting better deals has always been the reality, due to volume discounts.
That works in retail where I can get a volume discount for buying 2 million tonnes of bannanas, but this logic doesn't apply to digital markets which scale much more effortlessly and cheaply regardless of scale meaning steep discounts for big players are somewhat counter intuitive.
>We have a different idea about what the free market is.
The free market means that if I want x tonnes of bannanas to buy or sell, I can choose which supplier or to whom, and at what price to buy/sell them.
In the mobile digital markets you have no such freedom of choice. It's either Apple on the iOS market or Google (minus sideloading) on the Playstore, that's it. They're two monopolies with no competition, not a free market.