Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it

Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it by brennebeck on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:54AM (#22053760)

In that case wouldn’t it make sense to try to get your friends to use another group chat?

I get people love to use the iMessage groups, but every friend I have on Android create a WhatsApp group, etc. and it’s pretty trivial to use and maintain, especially with close friends.

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Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it by jonahx on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:09AM (#22053834)

> In that case wouldn’t it make sense to try to get your friends to use another group chat?

This greatly underestimates the power of habit and default choice.

I can tell you for sure that if I tried to mount such campaign among my (non-techie) friends, there would be a lot of pushback and annoyance.

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Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it by baddox on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:12PM (#22061066)

But this doesn't seem at all relevant to market competition and antitrust laws. It's not much different than disagreements over which coffee shop your friends are going to meet at (maybe you're the only one that lives really far away from the group's most convenient location), or who gets invited to a group of friends' parties.

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Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it by untog on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:39AM (#22054485)

Wouldn’t it be easier to get each and every one of your friends to change their daily behaviour to suit a personal choice you made?

Erm, no, no it would not be.

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