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You still consider Microsoft of 2020 a monopoly?

• d1zzy 6y ago
  It is very much still a monopoly for operating systems on personal computers (desktop and laptop). It's just that mobile phones have eaten a lot of the personal computer market so their overall power over people's lives has decreased because of that but it's still very significant.
  • tomnipotent 6y ago
    What other supporting evidence besides "still has 70% market share"?. That alone doesn't qualify it as a monopoly.
    • freeone3000 6y ago
      blink Yes it does. That's the defining characteristic.
      • tomnipotent 6y ago
        Except it's not. It includes high barriers for entry into the market, a single seller, pricing without competition, and other things. Microsoft was considered a monopoly not because of its marketshare, but because of its underlying practices.
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  There's still little meaningful meaningful competition in the enterprise desktop/laptop OS market; the scope of the monopoly is smaller, but, yeah, they still have a space where they exercise pricing power without people migrating to alternatives.