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Re:Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regul... by melling on Friday February 07, 2020 @05:08AM (#22264606)
Apple is a premium brand. They are never taking over the whole market.
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Re:Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regul... by wyattpeak on Friday February 07, 2020 @05:25AM (#22264682)
Apple sold around 40% of all smartphones in the US last year.[1] That's pretty close to Google's 46% of adtech that is the motivating statistic of the article.

[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...

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Re:Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regul... by protanopia on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:46PM (#22270049)
Worldwide, Apple has around a 12% marketshare for smartphones.

https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/vendor

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Re:Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regul... by melling on Friday February 07, 2020 @05:43AM (#22264777)
4 out of 10 phones in the US. Globally, they’re 2 out of 10?

Microsoft still is around 88% desktop market share. Now that’s a 25 year old monopoly.

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Re:Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regul... by saalweachter on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:58AM (#22265500)
If this is US anti-trust we're talking about, global statistics don't matter.
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