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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
by 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 agoWhat other supporting evidence besides "still has 70% market share"?. That alone doesn't qualify it as a monopoly.
- freeone3000 6y agoblink Yes it does. That's the defining characteristic.
- tomnipotent 6y agoExcept 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.