[seanmcdirmid]

You can split them up if they become so successful that uncompetitive behavior just falls out of it. Like people who want to split away the app store from the iPhone (regardless of the fact that other phones and app stores exist: Apple's vertical closed ecosystem makes the iPhone more popular).

[withinboredom]

You don’t need a monopoly to be anti-competitive and get broken up because of it.

[djbusby]

More popular than what? Android is 70% global market share.

[Guvante]

Apple had a 75% market share of phones that cost $600 or more in 2022...

[pests]

If you define your market small enough anything can be a monopoly. I bet Apple has a 95% market share on phones that cost more than $1500. I bet Google has 75% market share on phones less than $100. So what?

[Guvante]

We are talking about the App Store here, correct?

Do you think that for an App Store attached to a phone whether the phone cost $100 or $1,000 matters?

Because everyone related to those App Stores does.

[seanmcdirmid]

Apple's control of the app store makes the $1,000 phone more appealing. If they opened up the iPhone to other random app makers, the phone would be less appealing and they wouldn't sell as much.

[seanmcdirmid]

Profit share.