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Re:Apple Execs on Facebook (2011) by shmerl on Sunday June 11, 2023 @11:19PM (#36288073)
You are using term "monopoly" in a misleading way there. It should be illegal when it's causing harm to competition and it totally does. It doesn't need to be an absolute monopoly to be a problem. The fact that competition law is toothless today to address it speaks badly about how it's applied, not about this being a non issue.

Apple has enough control on the market to cause harm to it by stiffing Web standards for example without being an absolute monopoly.

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Re:Apple Execs on Facebook (2011) by JumpCrisscross on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:14AM (#36288379)
> It should be illegal when it's causing harm to competition and it totally does

Banning being mean to your competition, that's a first.

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Re:Apple Execs on Facebook (2011) by shmerl on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:22AM (#36288424)
Read what competition law is about. It's not simply about absolute monopoly which is an extreme edge case. It's about harm to competition. Anti-competitive practices totally should be illegal.
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Re:Apple Execs on Facebook (2011) by doctor_eval on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:29AM (#36289183)
> Read what competition law is about

OK

> Anti-competitive practices totally should be illegal

So are there competition laws that make it illegal, or do you wish there were? Are you asking for enforcement? Or are you just hoping for change?

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Re:Apple Execs on Facebook (2011) by shmerl on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:33AM (#36294162)
Concepts in current competition law are good enough already. Its enforcement is toothless though. So yeah, I'm asking for enforcement.
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