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Just because they make both iOS and the iPhone doesn't mean they get a pass to be anticompetitive on their platform.
by eptcyka 5y ago
Just because they make both iOS and the iPhone doesn't mean they get a pass to be anticompetitive on their platform.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoThey can be anticompetitive on their platform as long as their platform doesn’t have a lock on the market. So say, if you didn’t need to buy an iPhone and could buy an android instead, and if that actually happened in practice, Apple could reasonably argue they didn’t have a monopoly on the market even if they had a monopoly in their own platform.
- wayneftw 5y agoNot when their platform holds the majority of users in the US and when they're colluding with the "competition".
- ryan93 5y agoA majority of users choose apple. but they didnt have to
- CrimsonRain 5y agoJust like the majority of users choose to use Windows back in the day? They didn't had to. Linux was always a choice.
- seanmcdirmid 5y ago54% is a majority, but its not a vast majority. > and when they're colluding with the "competition". Unless you have evidence for that, that's just libel.
- wayneftw 5y agoLibel? It's directly from the material referenced by the tweets that we're talking about: > 'After another meeting between Apple and Google senior executives, notes showed that the execs agreed: "Our vision is that we work as if we are one company."'
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoWhich they already got busted for and had to pay fines on. If you mean they are still doing it, then provide evidence, don’t just assert its true.
- howinteresting 5y agoBy the HHI, Apple absolutely has a lock on the market. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl%E2%80%93Hirschman_Index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl%E2%80%93Hirschman... With 53% market share, Apple alone contributes over 0.25 to the HHI. 0.25 for the entire market is regarded as highly concentrated.