Korea is first in open platforms! Korea has rejected digital commerce monopolies and recognized open platforms as a right. This marks a major milestone in the 45-year history of personal computing. It began in Cupertino, but the forefront today is in Seoul.https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1432644358646415363 …
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So the most basic reason why Apple is not "free" to do what it wants is because it is not the sovereign of South Korea :) Doing business in any country means that you accept their rules, because they have the army and what they say goes.
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Assuming you accept that underlying premise, the rest is pretty straightforward. Countries ideally set their laws so that they benefit the public interest. Monopolies, in general, have proven detrimental to the public interest, so many countries apply constraints to them.
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@cmuratori, thanks! just thinking aloud, if the consumer still has the choice to use an entirely different platform, how does the Law manage to qualify it as tying and, even worse, classify it a monopoly? Or is my understanding of “monopoly” very limited? -
Also, you said that Apple had hardware business separately from software. But don’t they sell the hardware that comes with software and all the infra that comes with it for developers? E.g. iOS and all the APIs to control the device?
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