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"Apple may be a de facto monopolist for most of the world" May this is how some peoples from USA see Apple ? But here in EU Apple is just another smartphone v
by Devid2014 9y ago
"Apple may be a de facto monopolist for most of the world"
May this is how some peoples from USA see Apple ?
But here in EU Apple is just another smartphone vendor and most peoples are using Android.
- johncolanduoni 9y agoAFAICT they're not a monopoly here either; most of the numbers I see are in the neighborhood of 40%.
- dragonwriter 9y agoMonopoly isn't defined by marketshare in some descriptive category, it's defined by market (pricing) power. If you have that's you have a monopoly (which makes sense, because that means that even if there are participants in the same descriptive category, you empirically are not competing with them for sales.)
- archvile 9y agoEven in the US they are less than 50% smartphone marketshare, and about 10% desktop/laptop marketshare - hardly a monopoly. They just have huge profit margins which explains their buckets of cash.
- mikhailt 9y agoFrom the very beginning, it is clear what the author was talking about: > Moreover, the advantages go beyond margins: the best way to understand both Apple’s profits and many of its choices is to understand that the company has a monopoly on not just MacOS but even more importantly iOS. That means Apple can not only capture consumer surplus on hardware, but developer surplus when it comes to app sales; that some apps are not made is deadweight loss that Apple has chosen to bear to ensure total control.
- valuearb 9y agoLet me know when you can buy an iPhone from a different manufacturer. Again, author said Apple has a monopoly on iOS, not smartphones. That iOS monopoly takes about 80% of all the profits from the smartphone market worldwide, BTW.