Is nobody else bothered by the fact that it took impending government intervention to cause a change in practices?
To me it raises all sorts of questions as to their profit margins, anti-competitive practices, and what the money they're sucking would have done for the other smaller businesses that actually wrote the apps they're profiting off of.
When things get this "bad", it seems indicative of a market disorder. There is an imbalance that can't simply be solved via raising capital to start a competing service. The degree of vertical integration in the mobile device market makes supplanting their position all but impossible.
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Is nobody else bothered by the fact that it took impending government intervention to cause a change in practices?
To me it raises all sorts of questions as to their profit margins, anti-competitive practices, and what the money they're sucking would have done for the other smaller businesses that actually wrote the apps they're profiting off of.
When things get this "bad", it seems indicative of a market disorder. There is an imbalance that can't simply be solved via raising capital to start a competing service. The degree of vertical integration in the mobile device market makes supplanting their position all but impossible.
Demand web installs. Frictionless web installs without scary warnings that serve to make people distrust the web.
People get into cars and use the web everyday. They don't need Apple or Google branded Floaties® for Computing.
Tell your legislators.