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> Forcing users to go with a bad deal gets the incentives all wrong and is actually bad for consumer choice.

Nice bad faith strawman, where'd you buy it ?

Apple is trying to have its cake and eat it too, selling off their devices as general computing devices and opening it partly to external developers, taking away a massive portion of profits and threatening them when it's not advantageous to them. The entire point is that you _cannot_ build a better service because Apple is blocking you.

Sony isn't getting this treatment for the PS5, despite qualifying well for being a gatekeeper, because there's no pretenses of being an open market.

If Apple wants out of this, then let them close down the App Store.



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