Imagine this would be the case for physical stores and only 2 companies in the world could decide what products you are allowed to sell. You start a coffee shop and 1 day later a representative of company X walks in and shuts down your entire store because you "violated our conditions but we won't tell you which one. You can beg us to reopen your store but first you have to tell us why you didn't violate our policies".
This sounds like a dystopia. And yet it's already reality in the app world.
I know a board game shop owner that had this issue... He was specialized in a certain card game I won't name, and one of their employees had shares of the biggest shop in the country, and then by "coincidence" all shops that competed with that big shop, but weren't big enough to defend themselves, kept losing access to products, and kept being banned from hosting tournaments, because they violated some policy that there was no explanation, and the only way to get accepted back was convince the manufacturer of the game that they didn't violated the policy... whatever policy it was.
It only stopped after a regular couldn't buy his favourite product, got pissed, and threatened to sue the manufacturer, that regular is a star lawyer so the manufacturer finally understood they faced a real threat now.
Amazon and Walmart? If you’re trying to make a mass market product you may have to bend to their will. The reason laundry detergent went from being mostly water to “super concentrated” is actually Walmart. They said jump and manufacturers said how high?
This sounds like a dystopia. And yet it's already reality in the app world.