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It's still not clear why an app that can be used by at most 50% of people is dominant.
by N19PEDL2 3y ago
It's still not clear why an app that can be used by at most 50% of people is dominant.
- enragedcacti 3y agoIANAL and this isn't an argument of whats legally a monopoly in the US, but I think "dominant" or "not dominant" across the entire population is an insufficient way to look at market power when network effects are involved. As an example, in the US its about 50/50 but Gen Z is 87/13 towards iPhone and there switching to Android presents a much much higher cost than a 50/50 or less scenario. Apple has considerable market power over a large slice of the population that network tightly together. You also see incidental enforcement of social stratification where wealthier users are more likely to use iPhone. I think those are things that someone could be legitimately concerned about from a competition standpoint without considering iMessage to be dominant across the entire market.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoI just pretend that rather than Tim Cook's face telling us that if we want to communicate with grandma we need to buy her an iphone, it's AT&T / Ma Bell telling us that.