On: Google's CEO is increasingly boxed in by regulator...

[ProAm]

Apple has 100% market share for Apple users .

[ImSkeptical → ProAm]

By this logic, we should break up BlackBerry.

[ProAm → ImSkeptical]

It was more of a if you own an iPhone you are required to get all your apps through Apple and are charged accordingly so, reducing competition and ultimately being fleeced with pricing.

[kuschku → ProAm]

Yes, and that's an issue, but it's basically irrelevant compared to Google, with over 2 billion users.

[ProAm → kuschku]

Abuse is abuse.

[Clubber → ProAm]

Yes, but it isn't monopolistic abuse. You can always go to another phone and another ecosystem and probably get the very same apps.

[kgwgk → ProAm]

Abuse of dominant position requires dominant position.

[ProAm → kgwgk]

When you are forced to use their eco-system it makes them the dominant position by default.

[Clubber → ProAm]

But no one is forced to use their eco-system. You can buy an Android and use their ecosystem. You can buy a Blackberry or Microsoft phone (I think) and use theirs.

[ferentchak → ProAm]

First things first

[rocmcd → ProAm]

So maybe don't buy an iPhone? There are tons of alternatives, and Apple doesn't hold a majority of the market share in any country.

[stale2002 → rocmcd]

Or maybe instead, we should open up the app market, so as to reduce the monopoly power over that market.