How Apple's Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls
Whole Foods stacks their stores with their 365 brand products. In some cases, competitors to certain products aren&#x27;t even sold.<p>Of course, there are other grocery stores you can shop at. Just like how there are other mobile platforms you can use. (well: there&#x27;s <i>another</i> mobile platform, singular. that&#x27;s a problem).<p>I don&#x27;t understand the argument for the App Store being a monopoly. Apple can do whatever they want in their store, just like Whole Foods can sell whatever they want in theirs, or Walmart, or Target, or whoever. If an argument can be made that they&#x27;re actively trying to destroy the competition in the market of mobile platforms, then we should be much more concerned.<p>Beyond that: there&#x27;s a very unique argument that the &quot;platform&quot; (iOS) and the &quot;store&quot; (App Store) are separate entities in a capitalistic market sense. If this is the case: the onus is NOT on the App Store being more open, but rather on iOS for supporting multiple different storefronts. And, again, I think that&#x27;s not a very interesting argument unless iOS itself is being anti-competitive in the market of all mobile platforms, which doesn&#x27;t seem to be the case.