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> (1) Apple is effectively a monopoly, much more so than shopify I’m just curious, by which metric?

• benzible 6y ago
  Apple has > 60% market share in the US [1]. 60% is considered by courts to be a barrier to entry for new competitors [2] [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-states-of-america https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta... [2] https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c10784/c10784.pdf https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c10784/c10784.pdf: "60% is a favorite threshold for the courts"
  • h0nd 6y ago
    A quick search for worldwide data shows that both Shopify as iOS have a market share in the ~23% area.
  • 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
    All the search results for iOS US market share give such wildly different answers, from 15% to 65%. I wonder what the deal is.
  • cannabis_sam 6y ago
    Thanks!