> Google is acting here as the owner and maintainer of a services ecosystem...
> they increasingly experience difficulty to contain issues within that ecosystem and prevent them from spreading (piracy, malware, hacking,...)
I wonder if the smartphone app industry is big enough now that allowing just two corporates to govern them is no longer fair or democratic.
It has outgrown the "ecosystem" word a long time ago. It's a genuine industry now.
Apps are such a fundamental part of most people's lives now (whether they like it or not), and these two companies have a disproportionate amount of power over an entire industry.
I wonder if the smartphone app industry is big enough now that allowing just two corporates to govern them is no longer fair or democratic.
It has outgrown the "ecosystem" word a long time ago. It's a genuine industry now.
Apps are such a fundamental part of most people's lives now (whether they like it or not), and these two companies have a disproportionate amount of power over an entire industry.