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"direct action towards achieving a forced equilibrium"

Do you expect the head of Apple and Google to sign a public document "hereby we form an illegal cartel"?

At a minimum the competition and market authority should take an interest as to why there is no competition. If they botheresld to investigate, maybe we would actually find out if there is any wrongdoing.



No. But I don't take a 30% cut as an indication of cartel-building when it has existed since Jobs first announced the App store in 2008 [1] and was done at a time where the Walmarts and Best Buys of the world charged 70% if not more. Quite recently Apple sought fit to reduce it's revenue share to 15% after the first year on the store store. Google has done the same. I wouldn't call putting more money in the pockets of developers a lack of competition.

[1]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9cKe_Fch8




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