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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by stale2002 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:01PM (#26169388)
A literal monopoly is not required for something to be illegally anti competitive.

All that has to happen is that a company has significant market power.

And courts have held that 50% of a given geographic area can fall under anti trust laws.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by dkonofalski on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:13PM (#26169562)
That's completely fine. The current situation already has precedent in courts considering that Sony, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, and many others have exclusive control of their App Stores. Claiming Apple is anti-competitive because of its platform would upend all of these platforms.
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