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s/monopoly/duopoly/g Nothing about the original argument changes, people are just being pedantic about which word is used. Duopolies can be just as dangerous a
by danShumway 6y ago
s/monopoly/duopoly/g
Nothing about the original argument changes, people are just being pedantic about which word is used. Duopolies can be just as dangerous as monopolies, and to the original commenter's point, duopolies are definitely capable of monopolistic behaviors.
I advise people to just use 'duopoly' and to avoid letting arguments like this distract from the main point, which is that Apple has an outsized control over the entire mobile market and uses its control to unfairly prop up its own software offerings like Apple Music over Spotify, to lock consumers into its ecosystem making it difficult for them to move to other platforms, to force third-party devs to give Apple a substantial cut of their own profits even when they aren't interested in leveraging Apple's services, and to outright shut down competing mobile services that don't fit into Apple's vision for what they want the mobile market to be (Google Stadia, etc).