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Re:How Apple Cheats by mseebach on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @01:00PM (#7811396)
'Local monopoly' is meaningless. Every single business has a local monopoly on supplying services under the contracts they've made with their customers. And yes, Apple's total control of iOS is very much part of the contract when buying an iPhone.

When deciding if a monopoly exists, the relevant threshold is whether the customer had other reasonable options at the time of entering the contract, and in the smartphone world they unequivocally did have other options.

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