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Apple has around 13-14% of the smartphone market. In your opinion this is a high enough percentage to qualify as a monopoly???? Please explain.
by hurricanetc 7y ago
Apple has around 13-14% of the smartphone market. In your opinion this is a high enough percentage to qualify as a monopoly????
Please explain.
- burnte 7y agoAntitrust behavior != monopoly. This using it's lock on all iOS customers to force app creators to also use Apple's signin service. It doesn't have to have a monopoly, it's still an abuse of it's position. The app store itself is already under attack as anti competitive, this is just another extension of that behavior.
- hurricanetc 7y agoAntitrust behavior requires a monopoly. It’s part of the basic definition of antitrust. And the comment was edited anyway. It originally did say monopoly.
- yndoendo 7y agoTechnically the right repair movement is to fight a company's monopoly on repairing a product. If Apple or company X requires you to use them to repair a product they have a 100% market value of repairing the said product. Technically Apple also has a monopoly on Web-engines by requiring a 100% market share of the one they make with-in the iOS infrastructure. Monopolies can existing with-in smaller percentages in the change of categorizations and more finite defintion. I monoplize your time is different than I monoplize your time at work.
- pentae 7y agoThey have a 100% monopoly on iPhone users. If your customers device is an iPhone and your product or service doesn't comply with their rules then your customer needs to either use a different device or not be your customer.
- hurricanetc 7y agoBy this definition nearly every company is a monopoly. Despite the fact that me, a user, can ditch Apple and switch to the actual monopoly OS, Android, at any time.