Comment by spywaregorilla
2 years ago
> What's to stop Microsoft, Meta, or Amazon from forcing you to download their own app store to use their apps?
Like Apple does now, except for every app.
> We kind of see this on PC already with every company having their own game or app store.
No we don't. Those are fringe and mostly unsuccessful. And even then, those companies should not have to pay 30% of their revenue to steam, so fuck that.
> When Chrome is on iOS and is pushed on every Google search, what happens to health of the web? Does that create a new web monopoly?
Forcing everyone to use Safari is a web monopoly.
Yeah, Amazon make their own App Store for Android that I assume nobody uses outside of Fire devices because it’s terrible. They still make their apps available on the Google Play store, so this theoretical concern seems like it will remain theoretical.
MobileSafari is currently the only thing preventing a Chromium web monopoly.
By forcing a monopoly.