[cannabis_sam]

> (1) Apple is effectively a monopoly, much more so than shopify

I’m just curious, by which metric?

[benzible]

Apple has > 60% market share in the US [1]. 60% is considered by courts to be a barrier to entry for new competitors [2]

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...

[2] https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c10784/c10784.pdf: "60% is a favorite threshold for the courts"

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

All the search results for iOS US market share give such wildly different answers, from 15% to 65%. I wonder what the deal is.

[h0nd]

A quick search for worldwide data shows that both Shopify as iOS have a market share in the ~23% area.

[cannabis_sam]

Thanks!