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s/is therefore forced/have therefore chosen There, fixed that for you. They chose to buy an iPhone and I think at this point people know what they’re choosing
by simonh 5y ago
s/is therefore forced/have therefore chosen
There, fixed that for you. They chose to buy an iPhone and I think at this point people know what they’re choosing and why. Nobody forced them to do anything. If I buy a PlayStation, I’m not being ‘forced’ to not be able to play Call of Duty. I do feel some of apple’s App Store rextrications are excessive, although they are being pushed in the right direction, but this sort of frothingly apoplectic language gets really irritating.
- dwild 5y agoNo monopoly gets to 100% by simply existing, people chose to go toward that company... until it was so big that no one could compete with them any longer.
- simonh 5y agoThe problem really comes when that monopoly position is used to impose unreasonable restrictions, or leverage the company into additional market advantages. That is abuse of a monopoly position, or lets say an advantageous market position. I accept that. But you can't argue that features and restrictions that people freely chose when the company had a minority market share are somehow imposed unfairly or are leveraging unfair advantages. They had no such advantage, but users were perfectly happy with the tradeoff anyway, so clearly they're not being coerced or 'forced' into anything. They're just choosing it.