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17 pointsstanzheng4 comments

I find this so very weird as I remember the days when Microsoft locked their users into msft only solutions. Now we have msft competing on interoperability, while Apple is the new monopolist that ties their customers down to locked in environment.

I suppose this is evidence that governments should be more quick to interfere with the free market if a monopolist is playing unfair.

Apple is not a monopolist. iPhone marketshare is ~15% globally. There is plenty of choice.

I think what the comment was trying to say is that there is only one way to get an Apple experience and that's to buy Apple products.

For example, I can use Office on my Mac while I can't use Pages/Numbers/Keynote on my Windows desktop.

Apple is a majority in the luxury (>$500) phone category. In the history of computing, no company has locked down devices after one pays to own it, like Apple. In opposite world, they're not a monopoly.

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