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Re:Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annu... by tokyodude on Monday December 31, 2018 @08:14PM (#18798263)
AFAIK that's not how it works. For example go look up Microsoft's monopoly. The commonly held believe is Microsoft was declared to have a monopoly on personal computer OSes but that is false. Microsoft was found to have a monopoly on OSes for Intel based machines. So by that same logic Apple has a monopoly on OSes for A series (A10, A11, A12) based smartphones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

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Re:Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annu... by zapzupnz on Monday December 31, 2018 @08:39PM (#18798361)
Can a company have a monopoly over its own products? That doesn't make sense.
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Re:Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annu... by kbwt on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @06:35AM (#18799794)
iOS apps aren't Apple's products.
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Re:Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annu... by zapzupnz on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @02:57AM (#18804845)
I was talking about the processor series.
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Re:Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annu... by macintux on Monday December 31, 2018 @09:28PM (#18798541)
A-series chips are just (very good) ARMs. I don’t buy that equivalence at all.
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