And thank you for taking the time to type it :) Yeah I suppose apple will do what it can to resist and it's really all dependant on the law in the EU to fix that. US law for sure won't do anything about it considering what we've seen happen with other bigger companies. I completely even forgot about the right o repair movement tbh. I'm surprised Tesla hasn't been hit by that considering that they disable people's cars for taking it to unauthorized mechanics. I feel like that's total BS. One thing I am worried is that all the apps being restricted by apple from acting like hardcore tracked (Facebook, Twitter, google, etx) will make their own app store and remove themselves from the apple one to track you as much as they want with no regulations

True on that actually, but Sony comes second

Okay yeah this actually makes a ton of sense to me and I'm starting to see your point. I've always heard about apps doing shit because of apple taking a fat cut and was wondering when that would be regulated. I feel like this opens a minor possiblity for malware if apple isn't allowed to check apps on other stores, and I would say letting them check the apps on a new app store would be pointless cause then they'd say all the apps are unsafe so you should use their own. Would it not be more effective to just regulate what cut they can take from developers? Also some rules to allow consumers to make more modifications to those apps and all? Thank you by the way for explaining all that and for your time!

Hmm okay I see where everything is coming from then. The app store specifically though I don't. People don't have to buy an iphone to use any of the apps that aren't by apple they are available on Android. Why shouldn't apple be able to promote it's own products within it's own store? Why should they be forced to allow other app stores? I feel like this is forcing Walmart to allow a mini target to exist in a store. Also thank you for taking the time to explain everything I appreciate it a ton!

They literally said that CoD and other Activision games will remain on the current platforms. Aside from that who cares, playstation does this all the time why is it an issue now? If we could get them both to stop exclusives I'd be over the moon with joy but only attacking one and not the other is dumb when Sony is the worst culprit

Genuine question but what has apple monopolized? People keep saying their ecosystem is monopolized but as far as I'm concerned they should have the right to dictate which apps are available in their app store. Are you talking about this from a hardware perspective?