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What is relevant is that the App Store is a natural monopoly within the iOS ecosystem. As long as Apple has such significant market power (including a substanti
by atdrummond 5y ago
What is relevant is that the App Store is a natural monopoly within the iOS ecosystem. As long as Apple has such significant market power (including a substantial market share, especially as a percentage of revenue, not just units sold) their natural monopoly on the iOS platform will extend to them being a willing participant in an oligopoly.
Said state of affairs is the expected outcome of Apple having a natural monopoly and there being only one other substantial mobile OS market participant, who just so happens to also operate a natural monopoly for app sales - albeit a much, much more tenuous one.
- shakna 5y ago> What is relevant is that the App Store is a natural monopoly within the iOS ecosystem. That's very much not a natural monopoly, but a constraint that is forced onto the ecosystem by Apple. There is no technical reason for it existing, but it exists by design.