Re:iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, brows...
by kmlx on Saturday January 27, 2024 @08:33PM
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what monopoly does apple have?
not for smartphones: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartph...
not for macs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu...
not for operating systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
not for web browsers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Re:iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, brows...
by EMIRELADERO on Sunday January 28, 2024 @02:30AM
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It has monopoly power over iOS-compatible apps.
Re:iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, brows...
by fvvybfbfbyg on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:53AM
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Global market share hardly matters though. UN isn’t regulated monopolies national agencies/EU are. Not that it should matter it’s still an oligopoly which is not that different
Re:iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, brows...
by kmlx on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @09:37AM
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this is a super slippery slope. this would mean most manufacturers are actually monopolies because they have control over their own products. i don’t see how this makes any sense.
And then when it eventually did allow a gimped version of iTunes charged Apple 30% of all the music and movies sold on it.
If they were being Apple like they would probably have even started charging 20% of the album price of every music CD users ripped to their iPods using iTunes.
And MS was a far more ruthless company. If it wasn’t afraid of anti monopolistic regulation it would have come up with other ideas I can’t imagine in a 1000 years to have absolutely destroyed Apple.