The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product

Re:The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product by panzagl on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:04PM (#20585892)

One could almost say they've leveraged their monopoly position in phone platforms to expand into additional markets...

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Re:The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product by criddell on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:19PM (#20586052)

Can you explain the monopoly part?

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Re:The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product by tenebrisalietum on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:47PM (#20589462)

There is one seller of iOS devices and you can't select another seller if you want to run software from the Apple store.

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Re:The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product by scarface74 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @10:06PM (#20590201)

That’s not how monopolies work. In that case all of the console makers are “monopolies”.

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Re:The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product by tenebrisalietum on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:26AM (#20593708)

Usually the friendlier term "ecosystem" is used.

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