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This argument is often repeated, but I think it's a matter of perspective. Were all servers, mainframes and dumb terminals counted too? Back in the nineties I'

This argument is often repeated, but I think it's a matter of perspective. Were all servers, mainframes and dumb terminals counted too? Back in the nineties I'm sure those counted for something compared with PCs. Apple has a complete monopoly on the iPhone / iPad market and that market is bigger than Microsoft's market in the 90s. You cannot change the OS without changing the hardware. You cannot change the browser without changing the OS. PCs and Windows never had such restrictions. So what's the difference? If you answer that the PC was an open standard whereas the iPhone is Apple's own toy, I personally don't think that's fair, given that Microsoft too has built the PC market ;-)

GuiA 10y ago
> Apple has a complete monopoly on the iPhone / iPad market ?!? Of course they do, just like Nintendo has a monopoly on the 3DS market, and Porsche has a monopoly on the 911 market, but that's just tautological. If you meant "Apple has a complete monopoly on the smartphone/tablet market" then a 3 second Google search will show you that this is completely false.
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threeseed 10y ago
Your argument is illogical when you think about it. Microsoft dominated the Personal Computing market. Apple is dominating the iOS market which is a subset of the Mobile Device market. I can buy a mobile device and experience the social and personal benefits from dozens of players. And bringing it back to the point at hand. The reason Microsoft got in trouble is not because they had a monopoly. But because they used that monopoly to unfairly attempt to create another monopoly when a new competitor came into the market. Safari always shipped with iOS. There was never any competition to begin with.