[wang_li]

> This is what it means to own a platform for which they have a monopoly and do not answer to anyone but themselves.

This is true of every business. You can't set up a small shop selling fruit from your garden in your local Safeway. They own it, they decide what products are being sold from it. If there were only Safeways then maybe you can have a conversation about monopolies, but there are also Albertsons, Fred Meyers, Wincos, Publixes, etc. so you can't argue that Safeway has a monopoly. Unless you're arguing about a monopoly on Safeways, and then, well, yeah.

Apple controls their ecosystem. Google controls theirs. Amazon controls theirs. Microsoft controls theirs.