Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif...
by tambourine_man on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:37AM
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Through the late 90s and yearly 2000s I needed to purchase an expensive and slow emulator plus a Windows license just to do banking, taxes or accurately open some Office files. That's a monopoly.
If you buy an Android phone, you can use Uber, Instagram, Spotify, banking, maps, accurately render web pages, taxes, etc. There's nothing essential to modern mobile that's iOS only.
MS had ≈ 95% global market share back then, Apple has ≈ 30% of mobile market share now.
You may not like Apple's attitudes, but claiming they have a monopoly on mobile is comical.
If you buy an Android phone, you can use Uber, Instagram, Spotify, banking, maps, accurately render web pages, taxes, etc. There's nothing essential to modern mobile that's iOS only.
MS had ≈ 95% global market share back then, Apple has ≈ 30% of mobile market share now.
You may not like Apple's attitudes, but claiming they have a monopoly on mobile is comical.