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They have a monopoly on providing services within iOS. When an ecosystem becomes large enough, societally impactful enough, and is controlled exclusively by on
by adam_arthur 4y ago
They have a monopoly on providing services within iOS.
When an ecosystem becomes large enough, societally impactful enough, and is controlled exclusively by one entity, that qualifies as a monopoly within that ecosystem.
You remove any capacity for competition to drive down margins. Apple can ban Spotify tomorrow to promote apple music on their devices, for example. Not anti-competitive in your mind?
You have two gated monopolistic ecosystems, choose the one you want to be gouged by. In a competitive environment, margins get compressed close to cost to deliver. If a company can achieve huge margins on items that could otherwise be much cheaper to deliver in a competitive environment, that qualifies as anti competitive.
How much does it cost the supplier to host apps via CDN? Or to process a single payment? Apple can take as much margin as they want on these because nobody else is allowed to provide those services within their ecosystem
The law will adapt to this, it's quite obvious to those that are unbiased.
- codehalo 4y ago> You have two gated monopolistic ecosystems, choose the one you want to be gouged by. Is there some number of gated ecosystems that we get gouged by that would be considered acceptable and non-monopolistic? Three, ten?
- adam_arthur 4y agoIt has nothing to do with competition between platforms, but competition within those platforms. When a platform reaches a sufficient size (subjective), it must be opened to competition for services provided within that platform. We're talking about the base operating system for global computing here, not a car's dashboard system
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago> You remove any capacity for competition to drive down margins. Apple can ban Spotify tomorrow to promote apple music on their devices, for example. Not anti-competitive in your mind? The amount of REVENUE Apple makes from iTunes is likely less than $5Bn per quarter. Apple is not using their iTunes monopoly to buy chips. They're using their insane amount of phone sales (at absurd profit margins) to buy chips. Again, I hate Apple as much as anyone. Anyone who thinks Apple is a monopoly in phones is a moron. They don't even own 30% of the smartphone market... I agree Apple is anti-competitive within the ecosystem of the iPhone. That's not going to change their ability to buy all of TSMC's chips.
- dwaite 4y ago> They have a monopoly on providing services within iOS. This sounds similar to how Torvalds has a monopoly on services within mainline Linux?