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It's called oligopoly, and can also be legislated against. ios and android together run the mobile market.

• nihonde 7y ago
  What you’re describing is a cartel under competition laws. It would be hard to prove that Apple and Google are conspiring together against other market players.
  • rlayton2 7y ago
    Don't they both take a 30% cut?
    • DaiPlusPlus 7y ago
      Android at least lets you use other app-stores and easily distribute and install apps by sideloading. On iOS you have to use the Apple App Store - everything else is a massive inconvenience or against Apple’s T&Cs (e.g. Facebook+Google’s use of enterprise certs).
  • richardhod 7y ago
    I disagree. An oligopoly does not need to be a cartel, but a cartel is a special case of an oligopoly, and here I'm talking of oligopoly, not the narrower case. A structural deficit in a market can lead to oligopolistic markets and exploitation without collusion, sometimes with regulation and sometimes wihtout. For more details, see (for example) here: https://www.diffen.com/difference/Cartel_vs_Oligopoly https://www.diffen.com/difference/Cartel_vs_Oligopoly