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>The iOS app store is a monopoly. Are you arguing otherwise? There's no way to run an alternative store there. I have to agree, it is a monopoly within the con
by noarchy 7y ago
>The iOS app store is a monopoly. Are you arguing otherwise? There's no way to run an alternative store there.
I have to agree, it is a monopoly within the context of iOS devices. Apple works fairly hard to patch iOS in order to prevent the latest jailbreaks, thus removing a major avenue where a user would have the freedom to sideload the apps of their choosing.
In Google's case, while I don't think the Play Store is a monopoly, it is clearly a dominant player on many Android devices around the world.
- deogeo 7y agoA better way of defining (near) monopolies is through market power [1]. It gets at the heart of the matter for which 'monopoly' is just a proxy - the ability of a company to shape the market, even if it has competitors. For example, Microsoft never once had monopoly on operating systems... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_power