Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)

Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by ApolloFortyNine on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:52PM (#29914598)

If Apple allowed installing other apps or appstores from outside sources it'd be one thing. That they've managed to go on this long without an antitrust is incredible. Microsoft got an antitrust case against them for simply installing a default browser. What Apple does is magnitudes worse.

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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by gorbypark on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:23PM (#29914984)

It really comes down to the definition of monopoly and how a market is defined. If Microsoft wasn't found to have a monopoly in desktop operating systems, what they did wouldn't be illegal. Microsoft had north of 90% desktop OS market share at the time of the anti-trust suits. Does Apple have a monopoly? It depends on how you look at it. If the market is defined as iOS market share, then they definitely do (obviously). If it's defined as mobile operating systems, then maybe not. Currently iOS has a 59% market share in the US and only about 16% worldwide.

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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by cokeandpepsi on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:49PM (#29915279)

all is know is that apple asks folks to bend over and this crowd smiles then crows about it endlessly

dumb

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