That is even more obviously anti-competitive.

Not that we've seen any effective enforcement against it...

Sony, Nintendo never had any pretense. If you want to be on their system, you basically have to go in and have a personal job interview to be on their system and they make no bones about it that it’s their system, and you’re there for as long as they want you there. Originally Apple was going to be a closed system and originally was just gonna have web apps, but a whole bunch of developers beg them to open up a store and a few years later, a few of the big companies were crying because Apple was successful and wanted special treatment.

In reality, how many different apps do you need? Do you need 3 million apps? One can probably get by with 50,000 apps. It would still basically be the same in terms of user experience. Most users wouldn’t even know the difference. The only people crying would be other businesses. who want to latch on.

Note: Sony Nintendo over the years get very helpful people, so-called experts who say they must change the way they do things to conform with everyone else, but they never do. still in business, and still kicking Microsoft’s ass.

Epic games sued both Apple and Google for anti-competitive behavior on the respective platforms.

Google was ruled a monopoly, Apple was not. Every took notes.

Right? Like the through line for all of this stuff is limp and ineffective enforcement.

Fines need to start doubling for every time one of these companies reoffend.