[Dah00n]

>A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.

-Wikipedia

It gets defined to death every time we have this discussion. Apple has a de-facto monopoly on the app store no matter if their phones have 1% or 100% of the market share of phones. This isn't about market share but if they abuse their position/control on the app store.

Is Apple the "only supplier of a particular commodity" on the app store?

[ksec]

I dont disagree with you. I never said they dont have a monopoly, my reply was in reference to the OP comment around this post that Apple does not have monopoly or majority position in any market. The same thing utter out of Tim Cook month which is a spin or lying by omission.

[microtherion]

That is assuming that the app store is a "market" for the purposes of monopoly law, which is indeed the argument that Epic is making, but hardly settled law.

[stalfosknight]

That’s like saying my landlord has a monopoly on collecting rent from every apartment in the building they own. Well duh! They built the damn thing from scratch. To make it about how Apple is somehow being abusive by setting the rules of the road and collecting tolls on their own property is asinine.