Is Apple a Productivity App Store?

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The New York Times ran a tally of the questions and it looked pretty evenly spaced and then Apple was just like 50% of the other three Frustrating in a way because obviously I've been sort of fixated on the app store for literally since the beginning of the checkery. They're so scarred from their near-death experience in the 90s when they had to beg Adobe and Microsoft to continue supporting the Mac So it could remain viable. Now again This is just a long run of the answer checkery is that they've really hand-capped productivity apps in particular It's hard to make money. You can't charge upgrades There's a really important sort of business model the

Ben and James discuss the antitrust subcommittee hearing, the problems of mixing antitrust and Aggregators, and how to think about regulation and democracy.

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