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lowmagnet 4 hours ago

In what case is apple a monopoly?

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trollbridge 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some people think that being the exclusive supplier of iOS based devices is a “monopoly”.

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twoodfin 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also, I’ve observed a rhetorical trend among the “anti-bigness” crowd towards defining “monopoly” down:

“You may think a monopoly is an overwhelmingly dominant position as a supplier of a good or service, but that’s just naive popular economics! Acshually, according to the latest economic theories (by economists who share our politics), a monopoly is any firm that is big enough to have market power—like pricing power—to do things that can harm a competitor unfairly.”

Us dummies will keep calling that competition.

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vel0city 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

McDonald's is the exclusive supplier of Big Macs and McNuggets. They're a monopoly.

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Danox an hour ago | parent | next [-]

In and Out Burger is an even bigger monopoly, the way they organize themselves is unfair to the rest of their competition.

	▲	vel0city 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They control the In and the Out? What other options does the competition have?

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steve1977 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One sells Big Macs... the other Mac minis... there must be a connection.

	▲	vel0city 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Clearly Apple and McDonalds has had a deep level of market collusion on Macs, the FTC should really get involved here and break up this Mac cartel.

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covercash 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And they’re the exclusive fast food partner of Monopoly… so they have a Monopoly monopoly?

	▲	vel0city 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How deep does this rabbit hole go?

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Der_Einzige 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Blue bubble discrimination so bad that android users are the vast majority of incels. Even if that’s not technically a monopoly breaking up Apple would materially increase USA birthrates. Unironically!