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…That makes some sense.
It explains a lot of commentary I see, framing it as “who the price setting is benefiting,” customer vs publisher vs dev, as if the storefront price fixing is a predestined thing already.
It’s not supposed to be that way.
But it makes sense if that’s all people see in big box chains, the App Store/Google Play, streaming services, Amazon, or wherever.
Yup. And platforms like Play/Amazon/etc. are even further away from markets than big box stores because people don't all see the same items for sale to choose from, which is fundamental to the functioning of free markets.
BTW I'm not a fan of free markets, but for the limited set of economic use cases they serve well, at least they gotta function as such.