[username90]

My theory is that apple is intentionally targeting the profitable 10% and ignoring the rest just so they don't have to deal with monopoly laws. They still essentially have a monopoly on profit since they have the most profitable users, but nobody can say that 10% market share is a real monopoly.

[knlinux]

Tim is first of all targeting the issue of privacy in that linked article (which has nothing to do with monopolies), and it does it because Apple handles that issue the best among the other big players by not being really interested in your personal data (selling $1000 iPhones is good enough). Using Tim's quote as a support for author's further claims seems manipulative. Also, note that more regulation hurts small business more (future Amazons and Googles). Large corporations are usually already profitable and can handle hiring "Privacy Engineers" or whatever the next big issue is going to be, a startup that struggles to be profitable, very often can't.