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> There should be grounds for suing apple in mistreating the market in this manner It's a private curated app store, they can do whatever they want with it.
by ProAm 8y ago
> There should be grounds for suing apple in mistreating the market in this manner
It's a private curated app store, they can do whatever they want with it.
- devwastaken 8y agoI would bet there are civil precedents that give some powers, but not that they'd have an app at all if they won or lost. We're coming upon a time where some private markets have too wide of effects to not be actionable.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoI suspect Apples defence would always be "we only have 15% of the smart phone market".
- gnicholas 8y agoThe key question in many antitrust cases is: what is the “relevant market”? Their worldwide share of sales is probably not the touchstone in a US antitrust case. Certainly plaintiffs would argue this, and point to their larger market share domestically.
- dirkgently 8y agoSo you would make the same argument for Facebook, YouTube too? Or, as I have learned from HN, different rules apply to Apple vs rest of the tech companies?
- ProAm 8y ago> So you would make the same argument for Facebook, YouTube too? Absolutely. They can do whatever they want with their platform. Facebook bans people and groups all the time based on it's own whims, Google and Youtube as well.
- picsao 8y agoThe Roman's build all the roads, if you dislike the Roman's just yield any traffic.