Look at the cat and mouse game the EU and apple are playing in regulation.
Where actually they are a full monopoly in the App Store market. Only way to solve it, is to break it up.
Look at the cat and mouse game the EU and apple are playing in regulation.
Where actually they are a full monopoly in the App Store market. Only way to solve it, is to break it up.
They do, they absolutely do. What’s worse, it turns out they have a full monopoly in MacBooks, computers running macOS, iPads, and iPhones.
In other words, no they don’t. The legal definition of monopoly is not solely, “if there’s only one participant in a market, the participant in that market has a monopoly”. There is necessarily more to it than that, because if that’s all it was, literally every company selling a product would have a monopoly in that product.
You could argue that markets are just the wrong kind of social formation for mediating software production and distribution, since software is not a commodity.