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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by airstrike on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:47PM (#22194736)
I think that depends on how you define "market". Globally, sure, but in the US that's not the case

https://www.statista.com/statistics/620805/smartphone-sales-...

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by criddell on Thursday January 30, 2020 @07:49PM (#22197795)
The market is all the places the devices are sold. So global makes sense. If you define the market as San Francisco then Apple might have a monopoly. But that feels a little like market gerrymandering.

Even if you were going to restrict to just the US, Apple still sells fewer than 50% of the phones.

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by airstrike on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:36AM (#22201516)
Fewer than 50% is different from "Google sells twice as many"

> The market is all the places the devices are sold.

Certainly US regulators / courts don't purport to have jurisdiction over foreign markets, agreed? The aforementioned EU case against Microsoft was about the EU market alone.

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