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Apple has monopoly power, and engages in anticompetitive behavior. Being a monopoly in the US is not illegal. Abusing your market power and being anti-competit
by dahfizz 4y ago
Apple has monopoly power, and engages in anticompetitive behavior.
Being a monopoly in the US is not illegal. Abusing your market power and being anti-competitive in a way that harms consumers is illegal.
Apple is one of the world's largest companies. They shouldn't get a pass to be anti-consumer just because they don't own 51% of a certain market.
I would argue that "iphone users" instead of broadly "cellphone users" is its own market, but that is really besides the point. A monopoly in the academic sense is not needed for monopoly power to exist.
- scarface74 4y agoFortunately, we have real judges and real lawyers who have argued the case in a real court of law during the Epic trial. Apple doesn’t have a monopoly according to the judge. It definitely doesn’t have a monopoly in the phone market with 60% share. Epic lawyers tried your argument that Apple had a monopoly on their own hardware and she immediately threw the argument out as nonsensical. Every manufacturer has a “monopoly” on their own product. No one would argue that Spotify is monopolistic because they own their own platform.