[wouldbecouldbe]

If you actually want to solve the problems of monopolies and have a working free market you should. And in most countries monopolies are not allowed or frowned upon, regulation is already often in place

Look at the cat and mouse game the EU and apple are playing in regulation.

Where actually they are a full monopoly in the App Store market. Only way to solve it, is to break it up.

[darklion]

> Where actually they are a full monopoly in the App Store market.

They do, they absolutely do. What’s worse, it turns out they have a full monopoly in MacBooks, computers running macOS, iPads, and iPhones.

In other words, no they don’t. The legal definition of monopoly is not solely, “if there’s only one participant in a market, the participant in that market has a monopoly”. There is necessarily more to it than that, because if that’s all it was, literally every company selling a product would have a monopoly in that product.

[treyd]

Network effects like Big Tech employs ensures that inferior products will still be dominant in the market. Network effects strangle markets.

You could argue that markets are just the wrong kind of social formation for mediating software production and distribution, since software is not a commodity.