Really? Which ones do nothing at all without an Apple One subscription?
With Windows, it was MS saying “you can’t buy our OS to make your computer work unless it has IE and we won’t let you preload other software we compete with.”
Who knows at which point Apple may have crossed a boundary. Apple didn't become the dominant player overnight. And smaller companies that don't dominate a market the way Apple now does (and Google) can get away with more than they would if they were huge and able to have an outsized impact on the market. Take into consideration that government is also not frequently quick to react.
So, what you are saying is...don't make good stuff that everyone wants. Because if you do, you can't install it. Makes zero sense. But, if you suck at apps, you can include it. Monopolies are bad when you block other choices. Not because you excel at something. You might be missing the point of what Microsoft did. IE sucked and they did intentional bad things to block competition. This is different.
Further, MS was making IE exclusivity a condition of LICENSING Windows, which was a monopoly OS that was required to build computers.
Well to be fair this legislation is specific to the U.S. In any case, in the EU it's about 70/30 Google/Apple. EU countries may decide that though Apple only accounts for 30% of the market share, that their practices still demand review due to there only being one other major platform. Duopolies don't intrinsically require a 50/50 split, though at some point you move from duopoly to a monopoly. I don't think anyone would classify a 95/5 market as a duopoly, but I think you can make the case that a 70/30 market can be.
Nope, there are folks all over the place defining the market Apple has a monopoly on as the Apple iPhone and Apple App Stores. Even some lawyers a couple weeks back.
No, it doesn’t stretch the definition of a market and the liquor/potato chip market is one that you can study and analyze if you like.
So, not only do you think duopoly means “two times monopoly”, you think interdependence means “coincident”.What is the interdependence? Here's one example:
Apple will cut App Store commissions by half to 15% for small app makers
The move is an olive branch from Apple to lawmakers over its App Store business practices, which have been under increasing scrutiny for the past year.www.cnbc.com
Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales
Google's app store change will address some of the developer complaints around app stores and their fees, which have come under scrutiny from regulators.www.cnbc.com
Apple changes their pricing structure and Google follows after. That was too easy.
Probably not, but it’s not like this is a condition that was set out by Apple. And, you can bet there would be a HUGE black market in iPhones. Would be fun to see, actually
Smells like prohibition. Your recollection of the case is quite limited. The IE piece was only one small part of it, and even that you did not describe correctly.
This legislation makes no sense.
Right up until they implement it and you have to deal with the disaster it would be.
Apple certainly is not a monopoly in the mobile phone space, nor for that matter is Google.
What is useless? The camera app? The mail app? The store app? The browser app? Will you decide? Please just buy an Android and get their version. Or that Amazon phone. Ugh. You choose what to buy, and then you choose what to install.
Microsoft had 95%+ market share of home computers back then.
Point is, Apple isn’t a monopoly. They’re a successful company designing and selling hardware and software that was and continues to be a minor player compared to the PC industry and Android on the mobile side. This proposed government intervention wouldn’t protect me from anything. How about the government spending more of my money on things I and a lot of other people would like - universal healthcare would be one thing, or maybe spending more money on the public education system, or even pushing to transition away from an oil based economy.
In Europe, as part of a settlement, Windows could not bundle IE and instead presented a list of browsers to choose from.
Ok I'm no longer going to address the market nonsense you have decided to go all in on, even to the point of believing that the liquor/potato chip market I made up is a thing.Nope, there are folks all over the place defining the market Apple has a monopoly on as the Apple iPhone and Apple App Stores. Even some lawyers a couple weeks back.
No, it doesn’t stretch the definition of a market and the liquor/potato chip market is one that you can study and analyze if you like.
So, not only do you think duopoly means “two times monopoly”, you think interdependence means “coincident”.
They do not even have a monopoly here. At most, they control about 50% of the U.S. market, more likely around 48%.
52.4% and climbing.
www.statista.com
Yes, I'm completely aware of that. In fact, that's my whole point. Let me state this one last time, and try to think long enough to understand it:
One difference, back in the day there was a single computer per household if you were lucky enough. Nowadays, there is a phone for nearly every pre-teen and older in a home. In the 90's there were just under 100 million house holds in the US. In 2020 the estimated number of smart phones in the US is 294.15 million.