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I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't need a monopoly on the entire smartphone market to have monopoly power... Apple already got in trouble for price fixing - a viola
by ryanpollock 10y ago
I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't need a monopoly on the entire smartphone market to have monopoly power...
Apple already got in trouble for price fixing - a violation of the Sherman antitrust act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc.
Related to iOS and competition within it, see
http://fortune.com/2016/06/30/elizabeth-warren-apple-google/ http://fortune.com/2016/06/30/elizabeth-warren-apple-google/
http://www.thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/272399-time-to-prosecute-apple-for-monopolization http://www.thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/272399-time-to-prosecut...
Hopefully more to come from me on this topic...my channel here.
https://medium.com/@ryanpollock https://medium.com/@ryanpollock
- 2muchcoffeeman 10y agoApple was in trouble for collusion. In this instance Apple and the other publishers probably did so specifically because they didn't have a monopoly on ebooks.