[beagle3]

Apple does not have a monopoly - Android outsells them significantly in just about every market. Microsoft still has a PC monopoly. That makes a huge difference.

And yes, Apple making their device impossible to repair is evil, but their value extraction is opt-in (buy buying into their ecosystem) because they are not a monopoly.

[intricatedetail]

What we have is an unregulated duopoly and Google and Apple are filling their boots.

[noisem4ker]

The App Store is where they hold a monopoly.

[beagle3]

I was referring to the legal concept of monopoly, of which they have non, and Microsoft does (and was in fact, convicted for abusing it, independently in the US and in the EU).

(The kind of monopoly Apple has on the appstore, much like the Sony monopoly on the playstation, and Microsoft on the Xbox, is not AFAIK an antitrust target because non of them command a significant part of a market without alternatives; whereas Windows on a PC was an antitrust target because it does have that hold on a market, AND microsoft abused it to enter other markets).