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Name me another platform where you are forced into a duopoly with identical policies.


Gaming consoles.


We can still buy games outside the platform at this point. But we're probably nearing an age of consoles without disk drives, then yeah.

I guess there is still the in-app purchase angle.


Strictly speaking, retail games are also part of the same platform. Game consoles have the same lockout policies Apple does - in fact, they were literally invented decades prior to the iPhone by console manufacturers. You still have to pay a platform royalty on physical copies; except now you also have to throw margin to distributors and retailers, too; and the games can be resold without you making a penny.




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