Monopolies are not the only thing that governments are supposed to prevent. Anti competitive practices are supposed to be illegal regardless of monopoly status. The same is true of cartel behavior.
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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Apple isn’t a monopoly.
In personal computing and smartphones, Apple has competition. Because Apple has competition, even if it is only one other major company, Apple won’t be forced to unbundle services.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Regulations on cartel behavior is usually linked more to price fixing, not industry practice. Also, there is consumer choice on being forced into a single app store, get an Android phone.
And Apple has been forced to allow for in app purchases, the most cartel like behavior between the two stores.
Shanedino@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do you at least concede that it has the behaviors similar to that of a monopoly.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Yeah, but the law genuinely treats (near-)monopolies differently from their competitors. What’s legal for a small company does not have to be for a company which dominates the market.
The thing is, laws are supposed to bring the greatest benefit to a society. In most cases, fairness aids that goal. But that’s not the case for competition laws, which is why they’re relatively unintuitive.