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App Store, in their ios ecosystem.
Perhaps you should take a moment to review what a monopoly is.
Not necessarily declared a monopoly yet, but also not declared not one.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/13/18617727/apple-v-pepper-a...
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That's like saying McDonald's has a monopoly on what food appears on their menu. It's non-sensical as a complaint.
No, the case of Apple is more like McDonald's being able to prevent its customers from ever eating food not signed-off on by McDonald's.
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App Store, in their ios ecosystem.
Perhaps you should take a moment to review what a monopoly is.
Apple says nobody can run apps on their phone without handing them a 30% cut. No side-loading, no other stores, nothing. There is very obviously a market for apps that Apple controls completely. Just because there are other app stores for other phones does not mean Apple doesn't have control over the entire market for iPhone apps. Markets can be narrowly defined in anti-trust law. Apple is fleecing iPhone users for that 30%.
I don't think there's a good parallel case for this. DRM'd Keurig cups are the closest thing I could think of, but that never went to court that I know of. The case will be interesting: can you create a secondary market that you exert total control over? Can I bar anyone else from selling apps for my phone?
Personally, I don't think Apple should be able to do what they are doing and I hope they lose. It would be a win for consumer rights and free market principles.
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Perhaps you should take a moment to review what a monopoly is.
I don't think things are as clear cut as you make them out to be. Apple says nobody can run apps on their phone without handing them a 30% cut. No side-loading, no other stores, nothing. There is very obviously a market for apps that Apple controls completely. Just because there are other app stores for other phones does not mean Apple doesn't have control over the entire market for iPhone apps. Markets can be narrow…
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That's like saying McDonald's has a monopoly on what food appears on their menu. It's non-sensical as a complaint.
No, the case of Apple is more like McDonald's being able to prevent its customers from ever eating food not signed-off on by McDonald's.
They can’t stop you from walking over to Burger King.
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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.