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iPhone apps. If it helps, think if Windows apps had a 5% Microsoft tax and had to be approved by Apple.

• twoodfin 29d ago
  I assume you mean approved by Microsoft. When they were found in the US to have a monopoly, they had around 95% of personal computer operating system share. Apple isn’t even close.
  • mvdtnz 29d ago
    Really? What would you estimate is Apple's market share of iPhone apps if it's so far below 95%?
    • syradar 29d ago
      We both know that the market share refers to the smartphone market share of which Apple has about 21%. For iPhone apps Apple is way behind with about 0.005% of the total 2.17 million iPhone apps.
      • alkonaut 29d ago
        The ONLY interesting market share here isn't how many apps Apple create, or how large share of the smartphones they have. It's how much of the distribution of apps they control on iOS (which easily reaches the bar of being a market in itself). I.e. the monopoly question is: if apple takes X% for each app in this market, and a competitor can't take less, then it's a monopoly.
        • NetMageSCW 28d ago
          The only interesting market is comments labels as from alkonaut and if no one else can make such a comment, that is monopoly that should be regulated.
          • alkonaut 28d ago
            Yes indeed if this wad important enough in people’s lives or the economy as a whole I should be regulated, divided or possibly even nationalized.
  • happymellon 29d ago
    Just because they took too long to look at a problem, does not stop something else from being a problem.
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