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Apple has a monopoly on the iOS app store, which is a lucrative enough "market" to create systemic problems. But from a physical perspective, they've never had
by ethbr0 5y ago
Apple has a monopoly on the iOS app store, which is a lucrative enough "market" to create systemic problems.
But from a physical perspective, they've never had the kind of monopoly Intel enjoyed for decades.
- zepto 5y ago> Apple has a monopoly on the iOS App Store The courts have ruled that the iOS App Store is not a monopoly.
- jsnell 5y agoThey haven't, in the level of generality you imply. The ruling was much narrower: that Apple doesn't have a monopoly in the market of "digital mobile gaming transactions".
- Notanothertoo 5y agoA yes the courts, such an informed non biased authority
- zepto 5y agoPerhaps you aren’t aware that the meaning of legal terms is decided by courts. The alternative is that you don’t know what monopoly means and you are just using it a general way to say you don’t like Apple.
- kuschku 5y agoThe meaning of legal terms are decided by courts for their jurisdiction. When I, as european, wrote monopolistic, then that definition can still hold, as the European definition of that term is not decided by US courts.
- zepto 5y agoAre you the person I was replying to?
- kuschku 5y agoI started the comment chain with my comment to which you replied "Apple has never had a monopoly on anything"
- zepto 5y agoHave you looked into their profit margins? Do you still claim they are 90%+?
- kuschku 5y agoFor the store? Most definitely, considering I can see what costs I expense for self-hosting all the infrastructure I need, developing the software, etc compared to what they want for it. That’s almost 2 orders of magnitude difference.
- kergonath 5y agoAs opposed to random posters on the Internet?
- JiNCMG 5y agohmm, Nintendo, Sony, Sega and MS all have a monopoly on their stores. In fact, Target has a monopoly to their retail stores. You can't just sell your crap at Target because you want to. Also to probably lose 50% to the retailers.