Hacker News Reader

Comment by alextingle | Hacker News Reader

Apple giving themselves an advantage in the markets for headphones and watches, because they have a dominant position in the market for phones is a textbook case of monopoly abuse.

They've done extra work to cripple competing devices. It's obnoxious.

View on HN

Apple market share is 10% in the EU. Hardly a monopoly.

That depends on the interpretation of a market, which is why laws like the DMA establish a market based on its size. In the iOS market, apple have a monopoly.

EDIT: Downvotes for what? That’s literally what the DMA is for. If you don’t like it, take it up with your representatives - it’s nothing to do with me.

> In the iOS market, apple have a monopoly.

So if a company creates a widget and sells that widget, thereby creating a market, they are automatically a monopoly? how is anything invented without creating a monopoly?

Also why is it an iOS market and not a mobile phone market? if we compare features of devices then there’s not a lot of difference between modern phones, so segregating them by what OS they run seems odd.

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en

Where do you get 10% from? Its close to 40%, and the company with the biggest market share in Europe.

https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/europe

Abusing one’s market position doesn’t require a monopoly, being a major player is enough.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com