Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases
I find the group think here to be incredible, and you all will likely be very disappointed when the legal system winds up supporting Apple.<p>Regulating retailers because you don’t like their cut is price controls, which is completely contrary to a free market, and ultimately undermines the end user experience of having a trusted, secure store.  Perhaps Google or Apple’s power is so strong as to warrant regulation  - but It must be applied fairly, or else it’s just politically corrupt wielding of power against a successful corporation because a part of the supply chain wants a bigger share of the pie.<p>Apple’s behavior is not anti-competitive by any historical measure, as the courts will show when Epic loses both their Google and Apple cases.<p>Antitrust law is always political.  Do you really think the Trump or even Biden administrations will punish their most successful company, given the other problems in the economy?  Convince them this will lead to more growth and you’ll get your wish.  Right now it just seems like grousing.<p>Edit:  I could see Europe doing something more intrusive, as is their tendency.  However I still think it would have to be legislative and not legal, the arguments are too weak.