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Re:EU hits Google with second antitrust charge by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:33PM (#11537091)
And Tesla has a monopoly on making Teslas. Your definition of "monopoly" is inaccurate.

Android is 85% of the smartphone market. iOS is 13% of the smartphone market. Android is a monopoly, iOS is not.

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Re:EU hits Google with second antitrust charge by msabalau on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @04:30PM (#11537487)
If the objection is the alleged difficulty in installing competing app stores, why isn't the relevant market the market for apps, rather than the market for phones?
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Re:EU hits Google with second antitrust charge by AnthonyMouse on Thursday April 21, 2016 @02:20AM (#11540027)
So then AT&T wasn't a monopoly in 1979 because they had only a small percentage of the telecommunications market, is that what you're saying? If you don't want to buy your telephone handset from AT&T then you had lots of choices -- just move into the service area of British Telecom or the Deutsche Bundespost or dozens of others.
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