Wouldn’t be surprised to see them take the Apple route in the future and just ban them altogether to avoid additional anti-trust suits.
Eh, I’m not so sure. Nobody knows the future for certain, but given the recent moves to enable third party app stores to provide more complete features like automatic updates, it might be much easier for the company to just build on that API to later argue that they have plenty of legit competition while keeping tabs on the secondary markets.
Keep the competition in your sandbox, so no surprises.
It seems Google lost because they allow other app stores, but also because they paid off other companies not to include them.
Wouldn’t be surprised to see them take the Apple route in the future and just ban them altogether to avoid additional anti-trust suits.
Eh, I’m not so sure. Nobody knows the future for certain, but given the recent moves to enable third party app stores to provide more complete features like automatic updates, it might be much easier for the company to just build on that API to later argue that they have plenty of legit competition while keeping tabs on the secondary markets.
Keep the competition in your sandbox, so no surprises.