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Not remotely. Users can buy Android phones. Having ~50% market share is not a monopoly. Even suggesting Apple has monopsony as I did above is a stretch and is

• throwaway894345 6y ago
  The monopoly/monopsony distinction is pedantry. The important point is that consumers and developers suffer because one company controls access to the lion’s share of a market. That point can be criticized and debated, but litigating semantics makes for boring reading and anyway it’s off topic.
  • ogre_codes 6y ago
    > The monopoly/monopsony distinction is pedantry. Expecting people to be in the general ballpark of the definition of a thing isn't pedantry. It's kind of hard to have any sort of meeting of the minds when people ignore even the basic premise of a term.
• ascorbic 6y ago
  > Having ~50% market share is not a monopoly. Most competition regulators disagree. 50% of a market is well above the threshold for both the US and EU to consider a company to be a monopoly. They usually treat the cut-off as around 20%.