• TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Apple isn’t competition, Apple is a closed market, more anticompetitive than Microsoft and only undone by the degree of their control.

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      8 months ago

      Microsoft wasn’t creating a car, and Apple wasn’t the dominant car manufacturer

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        8 months ago

        … And? Apple isn’t even the dominant anything manufacturer, at least worldwide.

        I don’t know why people are so upset. You’ve already got your closed market, overpriced, social “mine is bigger than yours (but not really)” compensation brand in the EV market. It’s called a Tesla.

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          Apple is the dominant manufacturer of really bad peripherals. Even cheap Chinese knockoff brands can’t quite match the utter nafness of Apple keyboards.

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            Monopolies are not a yes or no thing. Since Apple has a large enough market share that it is able to strangle competitors just through having that kind of market share, it is having a monopolistic effect on various markets.

            For example, the smartphone market, if the smartphone market was perfectly competitive, if I didn’t like Apple’s and Google’s business, I would be able to go to a third seller and get similar products. If I didn’t like them, I could go to a fourth, and so on until it becomes meaningless. Like the market for actual apples for example.

            Since that is not true, Apple is distorting the smartphone market with its large market share, making it have monopolistic tendencies.

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        Don’t worry, I don’t. … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …