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andsoitis 4 days ago

> treat both Apple and Google as de facto monopolies with respect to the smartphone market

Apple and Google can’t both be monopolists of the smartphone market (or even app stores). By definition, if there’s more than one seller, there is no monopoly.

I suppose you could say Apple is the monopolist if the iPhone market or the iPhone App Store market. You can’t say Google is the monopolist of the Android phone market or the Android App Store market.

But neither one, and certainly not both, can be the monopolist of the smartphone market or the smartphone app store market.