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A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly (www.wired.com)
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[โ€“] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a monopsony - a monopoly from the other side.

Google Play Store is not the single seller of apps to users but a single sensible buyer from developers. Of course with most apps being free of change, "buyer" and "seller" are loose terms to satisfy the definition.

[โ€“] Steve@communick.news 6 points 2 years ago

It's both really.
As an app developer it's a monopsony.
As an app user its a monopoly.