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I’m as concerned as anyone about apples behavior with services in general, and the App Store in particular. But it’s also true that the market is not iPhones, i

by atty 5y ago

I’m as concerned as anyone about apples behavior with services in general, and the App Store in particular. But it’s also true that the market is not iPhones, it’s smart phones. And Apple is most certainly not a monopoly in smart phones or smart phone apps. They’ve very carefully built up an ecosystem that attracts the best app dev talent and the most lucrative app customers, but that does not make them a monopoly.

heavyset_go 5y ago
> But it’s also true that the market is not iPhones, it’s smart phones. And Apple is most certainly not a monopoly in smart phones or smart phone apps. Apple certainly has a duopoly with Google in the mobile device market, mobile operating systems market, mobile app distribution market and the mobile app payments market.