Because it should be legal for the owner of a store to decide not to sell a product, whatever the reason.
They’re the only taco store on this block! I demand the government force them to lower their prices so I don’t have to walk more than 50 feet!
If you don’t like it, switch to Android. But of course, the real problem is that people don’t want to switch to Android. They want to have their cake and eat it to, but that’s unfair and illogical, so they start slicing down the market to where they can cry monopoly and ask the government to force the business to give them what they want.
Android apps and Iphone simply aren't substitutable goods, so they are different markets.
But people who care about “freedom” and “openness” and not being in Apple’s “walled garden” can easily by an Android.
But how aren’t the two substitutable?
[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM... [2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1072648
PS: We really need a community-backed hackernews.org
What type of content will Apple be allowed to ban on its store? Do you want the government telling Apple what they have to allow third parties to access on thier OS? Should the government tell them that every developer should have root access? Access to the Secure Enclave?
And do you want to set up a “government app review board” to decide on a case by case basis when Apple is denying an app for “competitive reasons”?
Apple has chosen to position itself as the only way to install apps, which I feel is generally fine, but as Apple's customer, I have every right to complain to them when they harm my experience with their product by denying me a product I want based purely on business decisions and that don't protect me.
Apple does not remove apps from your device, it stops you from downloading them. So this is still like a store refusing to sell something rather than a storeowner coming to your house and taking things.
Just because they've never done it doesn't mean they can't.
> So this is still like a store refusing to sell something rather than a storeowner coming to your house and taking things.
You conveniently ignoring the fact they've still gone and left trash on my device is noticed.