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It's illegal when a company has a monopoly, but otherwise that's the nature of business. The line of thought that 'apple has a monopoly in iPhone software distr
by code_duck 3y ago
It's illegal when a company has a monopoly, but otherwise that's the nature of business. The line of thought that 'apple has a monopoly in iPhone software distribution' never seemed very compelling to me since they don't have a monopoly on mobile phones in general.
- shmerl 3y agoYou are using term "monopoly" in a misleading way there. It should be illegal when it's causing harm to competition and it totally does. It doesn't need to be an absolute monopoly to be a problem. The fact that competition law is toothless today to address it speaks badly about how it's applied, not about this being a non issue. Apple has enough control on the market to cause harm to it by stiffing Web standards for example without being an absolute monopoly.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> It should be illegal when it's causing harm to competition and it totally does Banning being mean to your competition, that's a first.
- shmerl 3y agoRead what competition law is about. It's not simply about absolute monopoly which is an extreme edge case. It's about harm to competition. Anti-competitive practices totally should be illegal.
- doctor_eval 3y ago> Read what competition law is about OK > Anti-competitive practices totally should be illegal So are there competition laws that make it illegal, or do you wish there were? Are you asking for enforcement? Or are you just hoping for change?
- shmerl 3y agoConcepts in current competition law are good enough already. Its enforcement is toothless though. So yeah, I'm asking for enforcement.