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I really wouldn't use the word "monopoly" to describe it when anyone with the ability to buy these things from Amazon can just as easily buy them from Apple or

• Alterlife 9y ago
  Wouldn't the same logic have applied to Microsoft when they delivered IE pre-installed? If MS was abusing it's market dominance then, so is Amazon now.
  • rkangel 9y ago
    I'm not sure it is. You start off in a position where you don't have the device, and you either go to website A or website B to buy it (leaving aside details where you already may have an Amazon account). With the IE case, you start off in a position where you already have a browser and you have to perform an extra step to get a different one.
    • bdhess 9y ago
      > leaving aside details where you already may have an Amazon account This ignores the most salient part of the whole scenario.
  • syshum 9y ago
    The Key difference was MS was an effective Monopoly in their market with something like 90+% of the market share Amazon is big, but still is only about 36-40% of the e-commerice market share, and far far less of the over all retail Market Share which is still dominated by Wal-Mart
  • talmand 9y ago
    The problems Microsoft had at the time went way beyond having IE already installed with Windows. Besides, without IE already installed the casual computer user would have a more difficult time downloading a competing browser.