> There should be grounds for suing apple in mistreating the market in this manner
It's a private curated app store, they can do whatever they want with it.
It's a private curated app store, they can do whatever they want with it.
We're coming upon a time where some private markets have too wide of effects to not be actionable.
Or, as I have learned from HN, different rules apply to Apple vs rest of the tech companies?
Absolutely. They can do whatever they want with their platform. Facebook bans people and groups all the time based on it's own whims, Google and Youtube as well.