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How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years

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Re: How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years

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Whilst it seems good to break up this market, it also was rather interesting to see Apple whinge about monopolist market behaviour. Pot calling the kettle black; how very hypocritical.

In which market does Apple have a monopoly?

The iPhone app-approval market leaps to mind.

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In which market does Apple have a monopoly?

The iPhone app-approval market leaps to mind.

If you mean Apple owns and runs an App Store, then yes, but that’s not a monopoly. It’s just a store that they control. Would you say that their physical stores are a monopoly that they abuse by not selling samsung phones?

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Whilst it seems good to break up this market, it also was rather interesting to see Apple whinge about monopolist market behaviour. Pot calling the kettle black; how very hypocritical.

In which market does Apple have a monopoly?

App Store, in their ios ecosystem.

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In which market does Apple have a monopoly?

The iPhone app-approval market leaps to mind.

That's like saying McDonald's has a monopoly on what food appears on their menu. It's non-sensical as a complaint.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The iPhone app-approval market leaps to mind.

If you mean Apple owns and runs an App Store, then yes, but that’s not a monopoly. It’s just a store that they control. Would you say that their physical stores are a monopoly that they abuse by not selling samsung phones?

Then why are we seeing eg https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/supreme-court-rules-agains... ?

Regardless, their behaviour with their own Dev relations is very much like what they're accusing Qualcomm of.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The iPhone app-approval market leaps to mind.

If you mean Apple owns and runs an App Store, then yes, but that’s not a monopoly. It’s just a store that they control. Would you say that their physical stores are a monopoly that they abuse by not selling samsung phones?

> If you mean Apple owns and runs an App Store, then yes, but that’s not a monopoly.

They also refuse to permit their customers to run apps not approved by Apple on the phones they have bought. That's the monopoly.

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