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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
It will be interesting to see how any anti-trust decisions over the app store and general closed development cycle play out - When you think about it, many other consumer electronics have a similar policies, especially game consoles.
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I can't think of any other consumer electronics that have the same market share that Apple does in their respective markets, though. That's the key here, imo.
Apple pretty well owns the mobile app market. If there were multiple players in the market and Apple had less than half of it, I don't think this would be a big deal as developers that wanted to cross-compile apps would still have viable alternatives to sell their apps.
I think a good question to ask, but by no means the only question to ask, when considering if this is anti-competitive behaviour is whether or not Apple would make the same move if they didn't totally own the mobile app market. Something tells me if Android had 95% of the market, they'd be welcoming cross-compiling with open arms and doing everything they could to encourage it.