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Sorry, but this is completely ridiculous. You can slice and dice any market down enough to where one company is a “monopoly”. They’re the only taco store on th
by ryanwaggoner 8y ago
Sorry, but this is completely ridiculous. You can slice and dice any market down enough to where one company is a “monopoly”.
They’re the only taco store on this block! I demand the government force them to lower their prices so I don’t have to walk more than 50 feet!
If you don’t like it, switch to Android. But of course, the real problem is that people don’t want to switch to Android. They want to have their cake and eat it to, but that’s unfair and illogical, so they start slicing down the market to where they can cry monopoly and ask the government to force the business to give them what they want.
- anoncake 8y agoMaybe the government should something about the fact that said taco store controls all real estate within the city and does not allow anyone else to sell food.
- scarface74 8y agoApple doesn’t control the entire smart phone market. Anyone who can get an iPhone can get Android. Hell, for the price of an iPhone you can get two decent Android phones.
- anoncake 8y agoThey control the entire market for Iphone apps. Android apps are completely useless for Iphone users.
- scarface74 8y agoSo people can’t choose a smart phone platform based on thier platform? If people care about the apps that are not available on iPhone they can buy an Android device just as easily S someone who doesn’t like the games that are available on Nintendo’s platform can buy a PlayStation or XBox.
- anoncake 8y agoIf an Iphone user wants to use an Android app, they can just buy a second phone? Great solution. Android apps and Iphone simply aren't substitutable goods, so they are different markets.
- scarface74 8y agoNo I’m saying that if people don’t like the iPhone, they can go buy an Android in 18-24 months. The usual amount of time that people buy new phones. But people who care about “freedom” and “openness” and not being in Apple’s “walled garden” can easily by an Android. But how aren’t the two substitutable?
- anoncake 8y agoYou cannot run Android apps on an Iphone. It's shocking that I have to explain that to you.
- lostmsu 8y agoI actually like the definition through "substitutable". Is it official in any way? Because if it is not, it should be.
- anoncake 8y agoIt looks like it is, at least in the EU.[1] Substitutability also seems to play a role in the US, but I haven't read that article.[2] [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM%3Al26073 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM... [2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1072648 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1072648