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The Vergecast

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Apple's Platform Control Is a Good Use of Platform Control

Apple is at an inflection point of how powerful we want the platforms to ben. The e u found in a complaint lodged by spotifi that apples abstra rules increase the price of rival music services. There's like a long apples inn appeal, there's a long trial to come. This is years of fighting. But they are waging this war about how much control they have over the eye phone on multiple fronts and in multiple countries. That sort of platform control extends all the way into epi can't put another payment processer in a fortnight without jumping through some elaborate set of hoops and getting itself kicked off the store. And i think we're at a really interesting inflection point of

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