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Comment by amelius

Probably the argument is that they (1) host the software in the cloud which costs them money, and (2) they review software for e.g. security issues which costs them money.

Anyway, the EU is coming for them:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...

> The Digital Markets Act (DMA) establishes a set of narrowly defined objective criteria for qualifying a large online platform as a so-called “gatekeeper”.

parent amelius 5 years ago

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