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66% is not even close to a monopoly, and even if it was, "consumer spend" is not a metric that defines a monopoly.

• Oletros 8y ago
  In the EU, more than 30% makes you a dominant player
• drdaeman 8y ago
  It's almost certainly a duopoly, though.
• bad_user 8y ago
  It’s not global percentage of a certain market that defines a monopoly. Apple has 100% market share in the iOS market. Due to that fact they’ve got exclusive control over a significant percentage of the population - consider that customers cannot install another OS on the hardware they’ve bought and they cannot move their iOS apps on another Android phone either. To make an analogy consider that you’d complain about your local electricity provider having a monopoly and I’d tell you that you can always move to another city or country, there, problem solved, it was your fault for staying there.
  • mook 8y ago
    > Apple has 100% market share in the iOS market. And Linux has 100% market share in the desktop Linux market. But it probably doesn't count as a monopoly. I do believe the significant market share of Apple smartphones is an issue, but as far as I know they haven't managed to make it a monopoly yet.