Perhaps you should compare to other OSs rather than a physical supermarket.
On Android, you can turn on "Unknown Sources" & install Amazon App Store, F-Droid, Humble Bundle's store, etc. You can even download .apks directly from developers cough YouPorn, XNXX, etc cough.
On Windows, you have Microsoft's store built into Windows 10, but you can easily download a .exe or .msi from a developer's site and install it.
On Linux, most distros come with a package manager, but there are a variety of ways to install apps outside the package manager your distro comes with.
Even on macOS, you can easily download a .dmg from a developer's site and have it installed in a few clicks if you want to install something outside the built-in app store.
On iOS you get Apple's store or.... a really difficult jailbreak process that sometimes takes months to come out after a new iOS version. It's pretty obviously more like a monopoly in this regard compared to the former.
Okay, that's cool, but iOS is not a monopoly, and in fact in certain places of Europe it's very far from being one, so I don't see how Apple are monopolists.
You could consider that not allowing people to install apps from outside the App Store is "taking advantage of a position of monopoly", which is illegal depending on the circumstances, but iOS does not have a monopoly.
Sounds like what other game device manufacturers do, except that it's a lot easier to get a game into the iOS store than it is to get it into PSN or Nintendo's eShop.
I wonder... how hard is it to ship an app for Apple TV vs. other proprietary set-top boxes/platforms like XFINITY or TiVO?
Back and forth discussions are useless unless European Comission takes an action.
Moreover, I dont understand why users of spotify or another apps on iOS are necessarily customers of Apple. How about users who visit a website using a browser on an Apple device?
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On Android, you can turn on "Unknown Sources" & install Amazon App Store, F-Droid, Humble Bundle's store, etc. You can even download .apks directly from developers cough YouPorn, XNXX, etc cough.
On Windows, you have Microsoft's store built into Windows 10, but you can easily download a .exe or .msi from a developer's site and install it.
On Linux, most distros come with a package manager, but there are a variety of ways to install apps outside the package manager your distro comes with.
Even on macOS, you can easily download a .dmg from a developer's site and have it installed in a few clicks if you want to install something outside the built-in app store.
On iOS you get Apple's store or.... a really difficult jailbreak process that sometimes takes months to come out after a new iOS version. It's pretty obviously more like a monopoly in this regard compared to the former.
You could consider that not allowing people to install apps from outside the App Store is "taking advantage of a position of monopoly", which is illegal depending on the circumstances, but iOS does not have a monopoly.
I wonder... how hard is it to ship an app for Apple TV vs. other proprietary set-top boxes/platforms like XFINITY or TiVO?
Moreover, I dont understand why users of spotify or another apps on iOS are necessarily customers of Apple. How about users who visit a website using a browser on an Apple device?
Siri won't control Spotify at all, and Spotify playback on HomePod is only possible indirectly through AirPlay2, which is a buggy pile of crap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Hi-Fi