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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by Funes- on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:54PM (#39782036)
What's stopping people from buying or using any other kind of phone, new or old? Or from producing one? None of what's listed here is relevant to that regard.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by catlikesshrimp on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:05PM (#39782165)
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/10/iphone-teen-survey-2023...

90% of marketshare with monopolistic practices is relevant?

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by hyperbovine on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:59PM (#39782100)
Absolutely nothing. The claim that Apple has a monopoly on the smartphone market is just laughable. Android has 40% market share in the US and 70% globally.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by alt227 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:20PM (#39783168)
To reverse your statistic, Apple has 60% of mobile market share in US and Canada, meaning the whole of North America.

On top of that, 87% of the teen mobile market in the US own an iPhone.

Apple definitely has a dominant position in the western smartphone market.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by tatrajim on Thursday March 21, 2024 @09:54PM (#39786690)
I keep seeing references here to the teen market and teen attitudes toward green bubbles. Should the anti-monopoly law toward a large, but globally minority market-share company hinge on the attitudes of US teenagers?
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by alt227 on Friday March 22, 2024 @05:14AM (#39788753)
In 10 years, teenagers will be the adult population.
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