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How would we define the limitations on this? Natural monopolies are not illegal and Apple is selling hundreds of millions of devices that use these chips every

How would we define the limitations on this? Natural monopolies are not illegal and Apple is selling hundreds of millions of devices that use these chips every year. Apple silicon is in every Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Macs of all sizes (soon), headphones, and so on. Placing limitations on a single company itself would be anti-competitive because we'd be restricting natural monopolies from growing and placing favoritism on other competitors, which itself wouldn't be fair either. Wouldn't Apple customers suffer just as well because they can't get Apple Silicon SoC due to supply restrictions enforced on them? Apple isn't stocking chips to prevent others from taking over, they're buying every supply they can to ensure they have enough to sell all year long and they're planning several years in advance. Put it another way, if AMD was richer years ago, AMD would be doing the same thing to get larger share. There's nothing stopping AMD and others paying TMSC several tens of billions of dollars to build a fab for them. Also, let's remember that AMD had their own fab but sold it off (GlobalFoundries).

shmerl 5y ago
Natural monopolies are supposed to be heavily regulated though even if they aren't illegal. If you don't regulate them, they'll abuse the market by being monopolies. The fact that they are natural simply means it's an area where they are very likely to occur due to high cost of entering the market. Like imagine not regulating a natural monopoly that provides electricity. They'll serve only areas they want and will not serve the rest. Good idea? Nope. Requiring them to serve areas equally is a proper method exactly because it's a natural monopoly.
- LdSGSgvupDV 5y ago
  You are right. We should have a world level regulation on US dollar or any other currency also. QE for every countries should be regulated by the whole world not FED or central bank in a single country.

shmerl 5y ago

Natural monopolies are supposed to be heavily regulated though even if they aren't illegal. If you don't regulate them, they'll abuse the market by being monopolies. The fact that they are natural simply means it's an area where they are very likely to occur due to high cost of entering the market. Like imagine not regulating a natural monopoly that provides electricity. They'll serve only areas they want and will not serve the rest. Good idea? Nope. Requiring them to serve areas equally is a proper method exactly because it's a natural monopoly.

LdSGSgvupDV 5y ago
You are right. We should have a world level regulation on US dollar or any other currency also. QE for every countries should be regulated by the whole world not FED or central bank in a single country.