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Apple has < 15% marketshare in EU, so that's low priority for now. Facebook? Yes. Amazon? Even more yes.
by kuschku 9y ago
Apple has < 15% marketshare in EU, so that's low priority for now.
Facebook? Yes.
Amazon? Even more yes.
- ProAm 9y agoApple has 100% market share for Apple users .
- ImSkeptical 9y agoBy this logic, we should break up BlackBerry.
- ProAm 9y agoIt was more of a if you own an iPhone you are required to get all your apps through Apple and are charged accordingly so, reducing competition and ultimately being fleeced with pricing.
- kuschku 9y agoYes, and that's an issue, but it's basically irrelevant compared to Google, with over 2 billion users.
- ProAm 9y agoAbuse is abuse.
- ferentchak 9y agoFirst things first
- Clubber 9y agoYes, but it isn't monopolistic abuse. You can always go to another phone and another ecosystem and probably get the very same apps.
- kgwgk 9y agoAbuse of dominant position requires dominant position.
- rocmcd 9y agoSo maybe don't buy an iPhone? There are tons of alternatives, and Apple doesn't hold a majority of the market share in any country.
- stale2002 9y agoOr maybe instead, we should open up the app market, so as to reduce the monopoly power over that market.
- spacemanmatt 9y agoThat is a really naive view of market share. The market for phones is tiered, and Apple dominates the tiers it wants: The profitable ones. It doesn't take 51% market saturation to have monopoly control.
- Clubber 9y agoPlease explain how Apple has monopoly control over high end phones.
- majormajor 9y agoAnybody who wants to get out of Apple's system can easily pick up a different high-end phone[0], with different tradeoffs, with few repercussions beyond how their Apple Watch (if they have one) works and the color of their messages when texting iPhone users. That's not monopoly power. [0] as a consumer I care about the phone's features, not its profit margin for the manufacturer. There's still a healthy ecosystem of non-Apple companies making phones.