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

Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it by rahimnathwani on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:00PM (#22055894)

"Nobody has to buy an iPhone to keep in touch with all their friends who have iPhones."

If an iPhone user has friends that all use Duo on Android, she can install Duo on her iPhone.

If an Android user has friends that all use iMessage or FaceTime, there is no way for her to participate in group chats or group calls.

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Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it by blazespin on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:24PM (#22056131)

Clearly the OP doesn't have a teenage daughter. If he did, he'd realize that you have to have an iphone in order to be accepted into the communication clique caused by iMessages / AirDrop.

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Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it by riversflow on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:58PM (#22057239)

How is this different from game consoles? The gap between Xbox Live and PlayStation Network was a big deal when I was in high school. If all your friends played Xbox, and your parents got you a PlayStation, you were socially isolated. Nobody is saying that MS and Sony must make everything 100% cross-platform compatible, but then there aren’t tens of thousands of indie game developers to complain about it.

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Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it by braythwayt on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:37PM (#22058221)

I have an adolescent daughter. She laughs at me being a fuddy-duddy wanting to use iMessage and FaceTime. Her friends are all on Discourse and TikTok(!)

N=1 and all that, I can totally believe that there are other social clusters on different ecosystems.

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