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It's interesting that despite the fact that walled-garden platforms are concrete examples of companies using their marketshare to rent seek and stifle competiti
by knolax 6y ago
It's interesting that despite the fact that walled-garden platforms are concrete examples of companies using their marketshare to rent seek and stifle competition, the recent anti-trust investigations have been going after more nebulously defined cases like Alphabet and Amazon.
EDIT: Of all the things that HN would consider controversial, I did not expect an inane comment on walled gardens to be it.
- mytailorisrich 6y agoI suspect that this is because Amazon and Alphabet have an overwhelming market share while Apple hasn't.
- berkes 6y agoI thought iPhones had a significant majority of the smartphone market in the US.
- mytailorisrich 6y agoAs a single brand they have the largest share at about 40%. But in terms of platform they are on par, or slightly behind, Android. On mobile devices overall they are ahead but not that much. This is in contrast to Alphabet and Amazon which have much stronger dominant positions and don't have comparable competitors.
- lexs 6y agoEU has opened an anti-trust investigation into Apple App Store and Apple Pay https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537636