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When the grocery store accounts for 80% of profits, and about 70% of revenues in it's category [1] (mobile app store), it stops being legal, and falls into the
by writepub 8y ago
When the grocery store accounts for 80% of profits, and about 70% of revenues in it's category [1] (mobile app store), it stops being legal, and falls into the category of anti-trust.
[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-nearly-double-that-of-google-play-in-first-half-of-2018/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-n...
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoYou’re just redefining monopoly to suit your purposes.
- writepub 8y agoHow exactly? What in the definition of the app market is disingenuous. If "browsers" were a market at the time of the Microsoft anti trust ruling, a $70B app store space is very much a market according to prevailing economic theory. You just don't like the truth about Apple, which is understandable, as they're a loved brand. But evil