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> It's obviously monopoly bundling. But there’s obviously no monopoly here. As you said yourself: > Literally every other modern OS allows you to install app
by ryanlol 6y ago
> It's obviously monopoly bundling.
But there’s obviously no monopoly here.
As you said yourself:
> Literally every other modern OS allows you to install apps from multiple sources, including Android.
Nobody is forced to choose iOS.
- heavyset_go 6y agoA monopoly is not the same thing as a lack of choice.
- ryanlol 6y agoNo matter how you’d like to word it, Apple is not in a monopoly position in the mobile OS market.
- heavyset_go 6y agoApple is certainly engaging in anti-competitive activity, along with Google, as it is viewed through the lens of US antitrust legislation and case law. Your personal definition of monopoly is irrelevant here.
- coldtea 6y ago>Apple is certainly engaging in anti-competitive activity, along with Google, as it is viewed through the lens of US antitrust legislation and case law. Your Not in anything that has to do with its app stores...
- pwinnski 6y agoYou are over-relying on a dictionary definition of monopoly that runs counter to the legal standard. Think "anti-trust" rather than "monopoly," if that helps.
- coldtea 6y agoThere's no "anti-trust" for your own marketplace within your own devices. The very "trust" in anti-trust is about companies in the "top-level" marketplace (the general market/economy). Not about what they can build for their own platforms, in the same way it's ok for Disneyland to give you Disney money...
- krzyk 6y ago> There's no "anti-trust" for your own marketplace within your own devices. Nope, it is not Apples device, it is a device of the user. Apple just produces them, users should have ability to use the devices as they see fit.
- HunterWare 6y agoThey do have the ability to buy which devices they see fit. That is the step that everyone neglects when making the above point. =)
- krzyk 6y agoSo, you think that I can't use iPhone as a hammer, because I can do that with a Samsung? :) Sorry, few countries agree with the claim I made - by investigating the lack of ability to have different app stores on iPhone, usually rights of the users triumph rights of the producer (at least in Europe, US is a different beast).
- coldtea 6y ago>Apple just produces them, users should have ability to use the devices as they see fit. They have the ability to buy the device they see fit (Apple, Google, Samsung, whatever) -- they don't have the right to dictate other terms to individual brands. The ability to dictate to the maker of the device how it shall be and who it should do business with and allow on its platform is not part of anti-trust law...
- pwinnski 6y ago
- krzyk 6y ago> Nobody is forced to choose iOS. Oh, I didn't know one can install other OS on iPhones. Same reasoning could be applied years ago: Nobody forces users to use Windows.