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Is it a monopoly if all other options are ad-infested and privacy lacking? If Apple is considered to have a monopoly on privacy-first devices and ecosystem, th
by r00fus 7y ago
Is it a monopoly if all other options are ad-infested and privacy lacking?
If Apple is considered to have a monopoly on privacy-first devices and ecosystem, then let's first judge the system that allows the other (clearly undesirable) options to even exist.
Monopoly as a definitive term has criteria, and Apple doesn't meet those. By your same argument, any luxury brand "prices like a monopolist" and should be shunned.
- otterley 7y agoI don't contend that Apple is a monopolist. We're discussing a hypothetical that assumes that they are, and whether it would be tolerated by law and society in today's climate as opposed to how monopolies were treated in previous generations.
- r00fus 7y agoSo you're comparing a hypothetical assertion to previous actual monopolies? Sounds unproductive other than to lend credence to the (false) assertion.