| ▲ | game_the0ry 2 days ago | |
> The "level playing field" rhetoric reminds me so much of Apple talking about the App Store. To be fair to apple, many billion dollar businesses have been built for and distributed by the app store. Think about all people employed to work on mobile apps, all those people going to local taco truck for lunch owned by an immigrant, that immigrant buying a nice christmas present for their kid, etc. | ||
| ▲ | lapcat 2 days ago | parent [-] | |
> To be fair to apple, many billion dollar businesses have been built for and distributed by the app store. This sentence is missing something essential: Many billion dollar businesses have been built for iPhone and distributed by the app store. iPhone is the platform, whereas App Store is merely the exclusive method of software distribution as dictated by Apple. Contrast with the Apple Mac, where the App Store is not the exclusive method of software distribution. | ||