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I meant both have infrastructure to sell and do sell their goods using them outside of the app.
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Which they have. In the past they were able to use their infrastructure for in-app purchases as well. Google is now disallowing that.
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Of course with their stranglehold on ebooks Apple and Google should have well over half the market considering the install bases for their phones and other devices.
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Why "should" they? In-App sales is just one method of buying eBooks. I'm guessing most eBooks are
not purchased via smartphones or tablets. What they are doing is giving themselves a huge advantage on their own platforms. And despite that, Google (apparently) barely has a toe-hold in eBook market and Apple (who gamed the system by colluding with the publishers and then by charging a 30% "extortion tax" to its competitors) so far isn't able to overcome Barnes & Noble. So that's good news. Greed doesn't always win out. Maybe Amazon and Barnes & Noble have better prices and a better selection — and a customer base older than Apple's eBook store.
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Now Apple is beating out Kobo in the US but Kobos US representation has always been fairly poor and I think we can all agree Walmart isn’t doing them a world of good. BN on the other hand is still ahead of Apple though I’ll grant it’s a close race there. Of course they’re all comfortably shut out by Amazon who are under the same restrictions as BN and Kobo in terms of the Apple and Google stores.
Apple has been doing this 30% thing for a long time so if they were going to see some strong results they’d already have come to the forefront. But as it stands at absolute best they’re a far distant second to Amazon who’s lapped them 8 times over.
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My point still stands. Extorting 30% from other eBook sellers for in-app purchases gives Apple a huge advantage on their platform. Without this advantage Apple's market share might be much smaller.
The main point of my original post was to compare Google's "extortion" greed to Apple's. I'm happy to see that greed hasn't gained them a huge chunk of the eBook market.