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I think 99%, 90% and 88% market share count as a monopoly "Intel has more than 99 percent market share in servers, and its chips are in more than 90 percent of
by rayuela 9y ago
I think 99%, 90% and 88% market share count as a monopoly
"Intel has more than 99 percent market share in servers, and its chips are in more than 90 percent of laptops and 88 percent of desktops sold."[1]
1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-09/microsoft-says-chip-flaw-fix-may-significantly-slow-some-servers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-09/microsoft...
- dragontamer 9y agoDepends on what your definition of computing is. Are you going to say that Apple has a monopoly on all iPhones? Or are you going to take the more reasonable stance and realize that the iPhone / iPad is a competitor to Desktops / Laptops.
- nirv 9y agoWe can define market monopoly by market application segments of computing: desktop computers, mobile devices (smartphones, tablets), servers, embedded systems, IoT devices, etc. It's pretty clear that Intel holds nearly total monopoly in desktop and server segments. I can imagine that this monopoly is close to being natural[1] (thus, legitimate and legal), one should be proved wrong to state otherwise. But I can't accept that an expensive, critically important, high-tech product turned out to be massively flawed, but the company (especially the monopolist) behind it not only doesn't bear responsibility, but generally denies the existence of the technical flaw ("it's not a bug, but a feature"). Moreover, it's still unclear whether this bug will be fixed at all[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly [2] https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/22/linus-torvalds-declares-intel-fix-for-meltdown-spectre-complete-and-utter-garbage/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/22/linus-torvalds-declares-in...