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> Markets can be narrowly defined in anti-trust law I doubt one has ever been defined as narrowly as a single product. The differences between an iPhone and an
by closetohome 7y ago
> Markets can be narrowly defined in anti-trust law
I doubt one has ever been defined as narrowly as a single product. The differences between an iPhone and an Android phone are functionally so minimal as to be irrelevant.
- tooltalk 7y ago>I doubt one has ever been defined as narrowly as a single product. Actually, QCOM's antitrust case is exactly that: QCOM's dominance in one or two particular markets (or product), in this case, the CDMA and "premium" (aka, LTE) modems.
- zaroth 7y agoThe market is LTE modems, not Qualcomm LTE modems. If you define the market to be a single company’s offerings, when there are other companies that make similar products (Android and the Android App Store) then the concept of monopoly has become a tautology. The problem some people are having goes back to the concept of the walled garden in the first place and general purpose compute devices. Apple does not have a responsibility to provide general purpose computing smartphones that can run any software you want. If Congress wants to pass a law saying that they do, then fine, but it seems quite to stretch to claim that anti-trust law is designed for that.
- tooltalk 7y agoWell no. In this case, it's "premium" LTE market.