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Mono means "one", poly means many, as in: one supplier (Apple) for many customers (iPhone users).
by diego_moita 6y ago
Mono means "one", poly means many, as in: one supplier (Apple) for many customers (iPhone users).
- scarface74 6y agoSo now we define monopoly as only one company can sell its own products? Doesn’t that make every company a monopoly?
- ac29 6y agoThe problem (if you agree there is one) is that Apple is the only company that can sell many other companies products, because they use technical restrictions to prevent those companies from selling their own products independently. They then use that advantage to charge an unreasonably high fee to consumers.
- scarface74 6y agoYou mean the same fee that literally everyone else charges digitally?
- xvector 6y agoWhat a ridiculous divide-and-conquer definition of “monopoly.” Apple is one supplier out of many in the mobile device space. “iPhone users” do not constitute an industry any more than “Windows Store users.” By your logic I could just divide every service and every industry over and over, until everything happens to be a monopoly over some small uniform subset of users. HN is a monopoly over HN users! Nike is a monopoly over people in the Nike store! Whole Foods is a monopoly over people visiting grocery stores at this Whole Foods address! Government, please control and regulate all of these out of existence!