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by hungerstrike 3020 days ago
Try building a successful mobile app without supporting iOS. That’s monopoly.

Furthermore, people are using mobile devices way more than computers now. So even if Microsoft was a monopoly in the past, they aren’t any longer.
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tinus_hn 3020 days ago
That’s not monopoly. Monopoly means that effectively there is only one supplier and in the mobile phone market there are at least two, of which Apple is not even the largest.

Just because it is an important player it is hardly dominant.

Also, just because you don’t deem a market important anymore (and many people would beg to differ with your opinion) doesn’t change wether a party is a monopoly in that market or not.

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hungerstrike 3019 days ago
It's not that simple. There is actually an anti-trust suit against them right now over this, so I guess we'll see...

> An appeals court has ruled that Apple must face antitrust charges in a lawsuit that alleges that the company monopolized the market for iPhone apps.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3157551/mobile/apple-must-fa...

http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/272399-time-to-prosecute-ap...

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-monopoly-ubs-steven-mil...

https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+is+a+monopoly

I hope they lose and are forced to change their store rules so we can sell apps outside their store because whatever label you apply to their behavior, it's despicable IMO.

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