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I simply don't understand this either. Sure Android has the larger market share by units, but Apple has a much higher share of revenue & profit in the market. W
by krschultz 10y ago
I simply don't understand this either. Sure Android has the larger market share by units, but Apple has a much higher share of revenue & profit in the market. Which is really the proper measure of market power?
- mwfunk 10y agoFor antitrust purposes, market share.
- dragonwriter 10y agoFor antitrust purpose, pricing power is, as I understand, the "gold standard"; various measures of market share (which isn't itself a single measure) are sometimes evidence which supports a conclusion about the likely existence of pricing power, especially when direct evidence one way or another on pricing power is hard to find.
- coldtea 10y ago>Which is really the proper measure of market power? It's not about market power by various metrics, it's about market penetration in numbers, period.
- cageface 10y agoApple apologists will pick whichever metric suits the current argument. Suing Google for running a far more open platform while Apple continues to exert as least as much if not more control on the direction of the market is just another case of misguided European regulatory overreach.