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Apple certainly has a monopoly in the iPhone app market.
by bouk 6y ago
Apple certainly has a monopoly in the iPhone app market.
- kick 6y agoSure, and Frigidaire has a monopoly on Frigidaire refrigerators. I said legally-justifiable antitrust claims. Apple has a minority of the smartphone market. You can make anything into a "monopoly" if you define it narrowly enough but that's not legally justifiable in any way.
- Nullabillity 6y agoBut that's not what the discussion is about. Frigidaire doesn't try to limit you to only putting stuff you bought at Walmart into their fridges.
- kick 6y agoNor does Apple: you can have as many PWAs as you want. As JS is Turing complete, you can then have every sort of app. They've always encouraged PWAs. Unless you want to legally force every company to surrender their source code (which I enthusiastically would support), there's no legal basis for Apple not being able to have their proprietary feature phone locked down. Though if you'd like, you can look at Keurig, which does limit what you can put into it to "only Keurig products" or one of the millions of other things that limit what you can put into it.
- anoncake 6y ago> Though if you'd like, you can look at Keurig, which does limit what you can put into it to "only Keurig products" or one of the millions of other things that limit what you can put into it. Whatabout...
- anoncake 6y agoWhat use case is there for Fridgidaire refrigerators that cannot be fulfilled by other brands?
- bouk 6y agoIf I buy a house I can put any fridge in there. If I get an iPhone, I can only buy through the App Store.
- derision 6y agoThat's not a monopoly nor is that how monopolies work. iPhone is their device and creation, they can lock it down as much as they choose. They could only allow apps they develop if they wanted.
- bouk 6y agoThat's debatable. Just because the Play Store exists doesn't mean the App Store isn't its own market
- derision 6y agoThe app store is not a free market. If I set up a card trading store, I'm free to set any constraints I want. Maybe I want to only allow users to trade cards that were purchased at my shop. That's my right as a private enterprise. Maybe everyone will hate it and go to a different store, and that's the free market. If I somehow prevented any other card stores from existing, then we would have a monopoly