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A-ha, I didn't understand what the backdoor was. I'm still not sure you could bring an antitrust case against them- to apply antitrust law they have to be abus
by sliverstorm 11y ago
A-ha, I didn't understand what the backdoor was.
I'm still not sure you could bring an antitrust case against them- to apply antitrust law they have to be abusing monopoly power, and they don't have a monopoly on mobile computing- but it makes more sense. Thanks.
- walterbell 11y agoApple have a monopoly on app distribution within iOS and are favoring Apple-owned Safari to exclude all competitors. Apple can either: • give up their iOS app distribution monopoly (allow other app stores) • give up their iOS browser monopoly (allow other performant browser apps)
- sliverstorm 11y agoThat isn't how antitrust works. If Apple, for example, didn't allow anyone other than Apple to sell software for Macs- that isn't antitrust until Macs have a monopoly in the personal computing market. You can monopolize your own ecosystem all you like, so long as your platform doesn't have monopoly power. If iOS eats up all Android's marketshare and becomes the only platform worth a hoot, then you can start filing antitrust cases for this kind of thing. The only reason Microsoft's IE bundling with Windows was antitrust was because Windows owned just about the entire personal computing market. Otherwise it would have been fine. Some say Intel tolerates the existence of AMD, because if AMD completely disappears Intel suddenly becomes a true monopoly power and vulnerable to all kinds of antitrust suits.