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Lance Ulanoff needs to find someone to sit him down and explain monopolies and antitrust to him, and then reread the DoJ filing. There’s so many inaccuracies i
by chomp 3y ago
Lance Ulanoff needs to find someone to sit him down and explain monopolies and antitrust to him, and then reread the DoJ filing.
There’s so many inaccuracies in this article, if I were to enumerate them, I’d be rewriting his article.
> iPhone has just 57% of the US market share (though I've also seen numbers closer to 70%), and globally, it has roughly 20%. You don't need to be a math major to know that, by any measure, those are not "monopoly" numbers.
Sorry to break it to you bud, but market share is not monopoly power, and there is no rigid rule on market share, there’s some court cases that study companies with less than 50% market share as having sufficient monopoly power for antitrust!
>Apple Watch rant
It’s not illegal to make something incompatible with something else, it’s illegal to have a constellation of artificial barriers to attempt to monopolize, or maintain your monopoly.
>There are other head-scratching parts of this case, such as the DOJ’s accusation that Apple is "Suppressing cloud-based mobile streaming services". Obviously, the DOJ can't be talking about Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and countless other streaming platforms, all of which work on my iPhone, iPad, and best MacBook.
Probably the clearest evidence the author read nothing from the DoJ filing.
At this point, I’m done, some people bask in willful ignorance, some people are paid for it.