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From the first part of your comment, it directly follows that neither Apple nor Google has a required monopoly on the important medium. IMO, we need to stop th
by mindslight 1y ago
From the first part of your comment, it directly follows that neither Apple nor Google has a required monopoly on the important medium.
IMO, we need to stop thinking in this broken paradigm of "-opolies" (with its loaded requirement to define what constitutes a given "market") and look at the actual coercive power they wield through market stickiness. Apple and Google both wield much coercive power with regards to software running on mobile devices.
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- Zak 1y agoThat does seem to be what the EU is trying to do with its "gatekeeper" classification.