Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case

Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case by cpmouter on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:21AM (#17256571)

66% is not even close to a monopoly, and even if it was, "consumer spend" is not a metric that defines a monopoly.

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Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case by Oletros on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:24AM (#17256593)

In the EU, more than 30% makes you a dominant player

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Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case by drdaeman on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:25AM (#17256604)

It's almost certainly a duopoly, though.

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Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case by bad_user on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:31AM (#17256683)

It’s not global percentage of a certain market that defines a monopoly.

Apple has 100% market share in the iOS market. Due to that fact they’ve got exclusive control over a significant percentage of the population - consider that customers cannot install another OS on the hardware they’ve bought and they cannot move their iOS apps on another Android phone either.

To make an analogy consider that you’d complain about your local electricity provider having a monopoly and I’d tell you that you can always move to another city or country, there, problem solved, it was your fault for staying there.

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Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case by mook on Thursday June 07, 2018 @12:14PM (#17257196)

> Apple has 100% market share in the iOS market.

And Linux has 100% market share in the desktop Linux market. But it probably doesn't count as a monopoly.

I do believe the significant market share of Apple smartphones is an issue, but as far as I know they haven't managed to make it a monopoly yet.

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