Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app...
by dcow on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:05AM
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How about a _market_ is anything where there exists a _marketplace_? Doesn't seem like a wild stretch. Now why should Apple have a monopoly on accepting payments on its platform?
To your second point: people are sad that we can’t have cheaper and better software on iOS. It’s a poor UX when an app makes me go on my desktop to sign up for their paid service. It negatively impacts consumers and only exists because Apple is wielding its monopoly.
Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app...
by riversflow on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:46AM
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> How about a _market_ is anything where there exists a _marketplace_?
So every store is a monopoly? You are going to have to be a bit more rigorous than adding “-place” and call it a day.
What's really important is the power play: your company should strive to hold a comfortable and stable monopoly position in a meaningful market (meaningful to you), while the government's role is to watch over all the businesses so that large numbers of people are not under heavy influence of external forces and not made unhappy. If any product exploits its monopoly by shifting the power from the government or making people sad, then gov steps in and interprets the rules in the way to correct this. Or, the gov is corrupt and helps keep that monopoly going :-)