Comment by heavyset_go

> That's simply not true, Android outsells iOS, it has multiple App Stores and allows sideloading.

It's very true. Google acts in an anticompetitive manner to prevent competition in the mobile app distribution market, as well.

Google prevents mobile app distribution competitors from competing with the Play Store on feature parity because user installable 3rd party mobile app stores cannot implement automatic upgrades, background installation of apps, or batch installs of apps like the Play Store can.

Also, iOS has 60% of the market in the US[1], which is the highest in the world. Apple's App Store is responsible for 100% more app store revenue than the Play Store[2].

> Maybe these stores converged on 30% because it's a nice round number and a roughly 1:2 split makes intuitive sense

Instead of guessing, we should let real competition in the mobile app distribution market increase efficiency and drive costs down to their true values instead of letting a cartel decide what they are.

[2] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/

[1] https://deviceatlas.com/blog/android-v-ios-market-share