Re:Ask HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem?
by DesiLurker on Saturday June 20, 2020 @01:47PM
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so monopoly laws dont matter?
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Re:Ask HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem?
by Finnucane on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:00PM
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Thanks to what’s become known as the Bork doctrine, they matter a lot less than they used to. Since at least the 1980s, regulators and courts have favored a very narrow idea of what counts as abuse of monopoly power, centered on consumer pricing issues. More general problems of market efficiency, preventing competition, monopsony, etc., have fallen by the wayside.