Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'
I really like the Apple app store a lot. I like it because I trust it more than alternatives (google play). I like it because it feels more secure. I like the unified purchase interface. I don&#x27;t think you can say with a straight face that the Google experience is better than the Apple experience for your parents. I moved my parents to Apple devices because it&#x27;s safer.<p>I especially like it because apple is using their &quot;monopoly&quot; position to create anti-business, but pro consumer policy that can&#x27;t seem to get implemented otherwise. The government should be legislating privacy, but is incapable or unwilling. Apple is doing better than the government.<p>Calling it a monopoly is a dubious claim, because it&#x27;s not clear apple is enacting anti-competitive practices in an unfair anti-consumer way. If anything they seem to be enacting pro-consumer policies via monopolistic power.<p>That being said, Apple is doing one thing that should be unacceptable. Apple makes apps that compete with things sold in the store it controls. That is the sole problem with the app store in my opinion. The closed-ness of it is vastly more beneficial than it is harmful, and there are clear competitive alternatives to buying an Apple device if you don&#x27;t like it.<p>Even that being bad is questionable. Kirkland Signature? Half life on steam? Amazon basics? There is clearly precedent. I doubt you feel the same way about each of those implementations of similar behavior.