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Hmm, interesting. There's two sorts of monopolies here right? From the consumer side you can move from iOS to Android and vice versa relatively easily. But fr
by codyb 6y ago
Hmm, interesting. There's two sorts of monopolies here right?
From the consumer side you can move from iOS to Android and vice versa relatively easily.
But from the developer side, despite having access to similar numbers of US consumers the Apple market is far more profitable and can't be abandoned.
Are monopolies measured from the perspective of third parties like that? The developers being the third parties here.
- a1369209993 6y agoApple has a monopoly on the service of distributing iOS apps. This is something that iOS/phone app developers need in order to conduct business, and which they are illegally (antitrust violations) being prevented from purchasing that service from anyone but Apple. No one (worth listening to) is claiming that Apple has a monopoly on phones.