Oh, I see why Jeff Bezos' washingtonpost ran their hit job [1] on Apple now. It seems Amazon basics is getting scrutiny while Apple has almost escaped unscathed. We all know the 30% haircut is ridiculous, but that's hardly the most anti-competitive thing Apple is known to do.
What? How do you even get from this HN post to the WaPost article? It's not like anything on this list is news, the Washington Post didn't cause this to happen to Apple or anyone else. These issues have been covered by plenty of media outlets. The only novel thing about this whole post is simply that it's aggregating them all into a single place.
>the Washington Post didn't cause this to happen to Apple
What? How do you even arrive at that conclusion giving what I wrote? According to TFA,
"Apple is also part of the House Judiciary Committee's probe, which is looking into whether the cut that its App Store takes from software developers' revenue is anti-competitive."
That's it. That's all they're going at Apple for.
When this wapo hit piece was published last month (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20890717), I pointed out in comments that Amazon basics steals business from third party sellers on the amazon store, just as Apple steals business from third party developers on the app store.
Now I see why. Of course Bezos is going to publish articles pointing out that Apple is getting away with the same anti-competitive behavior Amazon is under investigation for: Stealing business from the third parties under them.
Maybe we simply misunderstood each other? Still I just don't need the WaPo thing. Bezos is notoriously hands off, and even if he isn't hands off behind the scenes, these issues with Apple are nothing that other media outlets haven't reported on, so it's hard to attribute WaPo's nearly identical reporting to bias. It comes off as a bit conspiracy theorist to attribute such hidden machinations absent any actual evidence.
[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/05/how-app...