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I believe OP is referring to the recent ruling allowing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple's app store to proceed. Not necessarily declared a monopoly yet, but

I believe OP is referring to the recent ruling allowing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple's app store to proceed. Not necessarily declared a monopoly yet, but also not declared not one. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/13/18617727/apple-v-pepper-antitrust-illinois-brick-supreme-court-case-loss https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/13/18617727/apple-v-pepper-a...

sundvor 7y ago
Yes. My point was that they are exhibiting the same type of behaviour that they're accusing Qualcomm of, and that's why I said that's the pot calling the kettle black; they are more than happy to embrace the same self serving behaviour when it serves them. The app store paid out $34bn to devs last year, so a very simple and probably naive calculation of 34/.7*.3 tells me they pocketed around ~$14.5bn in revenue from a total of $48.5bn. (source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/developer-apos-34-billion-earnings-002422266.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/developer-apos-34-billion-ear... ) That really ought to be big enough a pot to warrant my drawing the parallel. Furthermore, - They have absolute control and will shut down things whenever they want, such as parental control apps - https://www.macworld.com/article/3391361/apple-privacy-parental-control-apps-screen-time.html https://www.macworld.com/article/3391361/apple-privacy-paren... . - They claim you may install alternative apps, yet you may not set them as default handlers to replace Apple's native ones- https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18644045/apple-defends-app-store-policies-antitrust-eu-spotify https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18644045/apple-defends-ap... - They're playing hardball with Spotify, who are also using the word "monopoly": https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18530894/apple-music-monopoly-spotify-app-store-europe https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18530894/apple-music-monop...
- scarface74 7y ago
  You realize those “parental control apps” gave a third party complete access to your child’s phone and were able to intercept all of your cbild’s communication. Do you think parents were aware of that? Are you okay with that? If you want to control your child’s phone, you are free to use MDM software where you control provisioning and the profiles.

sundvor 7y ago

Yes. My point was that they are exhibiting the same type of behaviour that they're accusing Qualcomm of, and that's why I said that's the pot calling the kettle black; they are more than happy to embrace the same self serving behaviour when it serves them. The app store paid out $34bn to devs last year, so a very simple and probably naive calculation of 34/.7*.3 tells me they pocketed around ~$14.5bn in revenue from a total of $48.5bn. (source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/developer-apos-34-billion-earnings-002422266.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/developer-apos-34-billion-ear... ) That really ought to be big enough a pot to warrant my drawing the parallel. Furthermore, - They have absolute control and will shut down things whenever they want, such as parental control apps - https://www.macworld.com/article/3391361/apple-privacy-parental-control-apps-screen-time.html https://www.macworld.com/article/3391361/apple-privacy-paren... . - They claim you may install alternative apps, yet you may not set them as default handlers to replace Apple's native ones- https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18644045/apple-defends-app-store-policies-antitrust-eu-spotify https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18644045/apple-defends-ap... - They're playing hardball with Spotify, who are also using the word "monopoly": https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18530894/apple-music-monopoly-spotify-app-store-europe https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18530894/apple-music-monop...

scarface74 7y ago
You realize those “parental control apps” gave a third party complete access to your child’s phone and were able to intercept all of your cbild’s communication. Do you think parents were aware of that? Are you okay with that? If you want to control your child’s phone, you are free to use MDM software where you control provisioning and the profiles.