Before we jump to breaking a monopoly first we need to define what it is to be a monopoly and how it is being used improperly. Google has many monopolies, a monopoly on advertising, a monopoly on the mobile app space, and both of those are actively being abused.
However Search engines are completely fungible. People are free to use whatever search engine they want. Google represents 90% of the Search market, but it is not the default option on any desktop OS. It is only the default option on a subset of brow
Have you never heard of a company called Apple? THEY have a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT MONOPOLY on the entire iPhone industry.
You can make Android apps and never Google a single penny, care to explain how you can do that on the iPhone without Apple sticking their fingers into your wallet along the way?
THEY have a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT MONOPOLY on the entire iPhone industry
No they don't because there is no market or industry around iPhone. Having one hundred percent control over your own product doesn't make you a monopoly, it just makes you a seller of a product. If iOS ran on other devices, then you could start talking about monopolies, but at present the only space Apple competes in with phones is one where they have too low of a market share to be considered a monopoly.
Now the courts are still working on the app space within the iPhone. But it is likely that case will be defined based on business practices and contractual agreements rather than monopolies, because again you need the ability for a competitor to exist in your space to be a monopoly and you don't get that on your wholly owned stack.
You can make Android apps and never Google a single penny
Indeed. Google do not have a monopoly on the app space and no one said they did. What I said is Google has a monopoly on its Google Play (the service provided to 3rd parties, not the store). You *can't* just get an Android store and throw the Google Play store on it, without a whole lot of conditions and contracts, and there are no meaningful alternatives with any kind of market, hence a monopoly, hence a judgement on it by the EU when they abused this monopoly to lock out Bing search from Android devices.
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Before we jump to breaking a monopoly first we need to define what it is to be a monopoly and how it is being used improperly. Google has many monopolies, a monopoly on advertising, a monopoly on the mobile app space, and both of those are actively being abused.
However Search engines are completely fungible. People are free to use whatever search engine they want. Google represents 90% of the Search market, but it is not the default option on any desktop OS. It is only the default option on a subset of brow
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THEY have a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT MONOPOLY on the entire iPhone industry
No they don't because there is no market or industry around iPhone. Having one hundred percent control over your own product doesn't make you a monopoly, it just makes you a seller of a product. If iOS ran on other devices, then you could start talking about monopolies, but at present the only space Apple competes in with phones is one where they have too low of a market share to be considered a monopoly.
Now the courts are still working on the app space within the iPhone. But it is likely that case will be defined based on business practices and contractual agreements rather than monopolies, because again you need the ability for a competitor to exist in your space to be a monopoly and you don't get that on your wholly owned stack.
You can make Android apps and never Google a single penny
Indeed. Google do not have a monopoly on the app space and no one said they did. What I said is Google has a monopoly on its Google Play (the service provided to 3rd parties, not the store). You *can't* just get an Android store and throw the Google Play store on it, without a whole lot of conditions and contracts, and there are no meaningful alternatives with any kind of market, hence a monopoly, hence a judgement on it by the EU when they abused this monopoly to lock out Bing search from Android devices.