Apple is not a monopoly and therefore not subject to all the restrictions that these court cases seem to want to put Apple under. I don't think Apple is a monopoly, but there is a doopoly for sure, which is Google and Apple, right? And so if you don't like Apple, oh, why don't you try Google? They are different in some important ways, but not that much. Both of them have a fairly strong grip on their app store. It really makes it so that this is what market you were getting out of,. Like the entirety of the mobile landscape.
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