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These App Store whiners get more bizarre every day.

1. What's "quiet" about this operation — are Apple's ads not flashy and annoying, like all other ads purchased from Google? Perhaps they are subliminally blinked/whispered at the very threshold of human sight/hearing.

2. When Kroger advertises that it sells Coke, the ad doesn't tell you to go to anywhere other than Kroger to get the Coke. Why would it? And why would Coke be anything but thrilled that Kroger is footing the bill to advertise Coke? More sales for Coke — even with Kroger keeping the retail markup.

Maybe Sweeney should speak about how his own Epic Games store is unfair because we can't all put games in it for free and get 100% of the money with Sweeney's Epic getting 0%. That would be fair; then Sweeney wouldn't have a monopoly over Epic Games, and there would be competition.

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

I don't like their chances. Their arguments are weak. Their demands are ridiculous.
If you want to go after Apple's monopoly, you have to use the customer's right to chose what apps they can use on their iPhones. That is where Apple is the weakest.
For example, why can't I mine cryptocurrency on my iPhone if I want to?
Why can't I use BitTorrent if I want to?
Why can't I display a list of the WiFi networks around me?
Why can't I run a Windows or game emulator?
Why can't I choose any kind of Apple Watch face?

Does the consumer have the right to have these activities supported by every company's computer-based product? How about the consumer can buy a device that allows it, like an Android phone or a Raspberry Pi?

I think some people are just enamored of the idea that iPhone and iPad should function the same as personal computers in the '80s and '90s: a free-for-all where anyone can install anything — piracy, malware, funky system mods, you name it. And they're hoping that the courts will force that to happen.
Also, are these plaintiffs even suggesting why their requested ruling should apply only to Apple, and not also to all other companies' locked-down platforms, stores, etc? Why should any other company get to have tyrannical, greedy, anticompetitive control of its own thing?

All Apple wants here is certainty of law and its penalties. If a government official can levy fines of arbitrary amount, for unpredictable reasons, then the only hope for being able to do business in that region in the future is if its appellate courts are willing to say, "no, we're not doing that."