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They're exerting the same influence that Google did over their Android partners. They created a faux-open market with arbitrary rules that ensure their products always win. Google lost their case because of this and Apple should too.

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Google lost their case because, among other things, they offered back room deals which favored a blessed few and were not available to all. E.g. you could not get the rate Spotify was getting charged for in app purchases (zero%).

You are correct and Apple is offering very similar back room deals in the App Store. It was revealed as such in their last suit.

Did you miss the list of Apple products that were not winning earlier in the thread?

Do you think if any Apple product isn't "winning", suddenly their competition stifling rules and backroom deals don't exist anymore?

I think the people who say the following should have to engage with the fact that its implication is obviously not true:

> They created a faux-open market with arbitrary rules that ensure their products always win.

Have fun toting around your goal post my friend.

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