Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

For those who are arguing that Apple should allow third party developers to have their own marketplace without Apple taking a cut, should:

- Ebay allow for a third party marketplace to exist without them getting a cut?

-PayPal, chase, stripe allow third party developers to offer up their own payment services without the respective companies take a cut?

Also by the same token, Amazon is a monopoly by taking a percentage fee and should allow competitors to sell on their platform without taking a listing fee. Is this not the same thing?

you’re comparing hardware to software which i don’t think is fair.

apple creates the marketplace, the OS, and the hardware.

it’s a much more complex issue which is more analogous to if windows required all users to use internet explorer, which we know is monopolistic.

there’s also much more friction switching software like stripe than hardware like your iphone

I'm not sure why it's not the same. Apple could just sell the hardware. Here Apple is selling the hardware and providing a marketplace for apps. There is virtually no difference between the App Store and using the browser to buy things from Amazon. The argument is that Apple should provide the ability to sell things on the App Store with out a cut. Amazon by the same argument should be forced to do the same.

You can argue that Amazons web Shopping market share is larger than Apple's cellphone market share and should be subject to the same monopoly regulation.