TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm mutiny

Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m... by zepto on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:06PM (#29344004)

Everyone has a monopoly on their own products. Samsung has a monopoly on Galaxy phones. Tesla has a monopoly on Model Ss. It’s meaningless to say that Apple has a monopoly on a certain part of the iPhone infrastructure, since it’s their product.

Of course they don’t have a monopoly on mobile apps or app stores or phones. There are competing products.

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Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m... by melff on Thursday November 25, 2021 @04:02PM (#29344960)

You're conflating the phones themselves with the secondary markets they create.

The problem is that Apple has a monopoly in selling/distributing Apps to iphone users. This is not the case on other operating systems, technically not even on android(eg. Samsung) and has nothing to do with a "monopoly on their own products".

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Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m... by shukantpal on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:29PM (#29346724)

You're calling a product (iOS app platform) a secondary market.

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Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m... by melff on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:02AM (#29348872)

A phone is a product, the iOS app platform(or app distribution on iOS to be more precise) is a (monopolized) market, not a product.

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