That's not how monopolies work, though.

It's absolutely how they work. If there's only a single grocery store in town (and for whatever reason others can't be opened), is that somehow not a monopoly even though there are several pharmacies and hardware stores?

	▲	mingus88 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You can buy whatever phone you want. Many of them can run multiple OSes if that’s what you want. There is not a single mobile platform in town. When Ford sells me an F150 I don’t cry about them having a monopoly on their Sync platform. That’s not now monopolies work
	▲	joemi 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's not a good analogy for the situation. A better grocery-based analogy would be if there's only a single Bob's Grocery in town (and for whatever reason more Bob's Groceries can't be opened) but there is a Sally's Groceries in town. Then Bob's Groceries isn't a monopoly. The only thing Bob's Groceries is a monopoly of is Bob's Groceries, which is a useless tautological argument. Apple has neither a monopoly on phones nor on app marketplaces.