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You cannot have a monopoly within a product you have created from the ground up. iOS is not a market. It is licensed software. You do not own it when you buy an

• stale2002 6y ago
  > You cannot have a monopoly within a product you have created from the ground up. Yes you can. Just go look at the microsoft court case, if you don't believe me. Microsoft created their software. But it was absolutely still possible for them to be engaging in illegal anti-competitive behavior. The Microsoft case directly proves you wrong. The courts ruled against them. Even though microsoft created windows. Imagine if microsoft prevented people from installing other software on the PC, that did not go through their app store. Even IF, they changed their licensings, to whatever Apple's are, I think that basically everyone would agree that this would be illegally anti-competitive. Or do you instead believe that Microsoft could prevent competiting software (such as web browsers) from being installed on the PC?
  • pb7 6y ago
    Microsoft didn’t create the entire product from the ground up. They created the software only. Without the software, a whole lot of hardware was obsolete. Apple creates both the hardware and the software. They are 100% at loss if the software pushes consumers away.
    • stale2002 6y ago
      > They are 100% at loss if Doesn't matter. That is not an excuse to break the law. There is simply nothing in the law that gives a company immunity from anti trust law, if they built both the hardware and software. Such a law simply does not exist.