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Apple sits between users and developers. If it's a monopsony on one side, it's a monopoly on the other side.


Not remotely. Users can buy Android phones.

Having ~50% market share is not a monopoly.

Even suggesting Apple has monopsony as I did above is a stretch and is only the case if you define the market based on paying users.


The monopoly/monopsony distinction is pedantry. The important point is that consumers and developers suffer because one company controls access to the lion’s share of a market. That point can be criticized and debated, but litigating semantics makes for boring reading and anyway it’s off topic.


> The monopoly/monopsony distinction is pedantry.

Expecting people to be in the general ballpark of the definition of a thing isn't pedantry. It's kind of hard to have any sort of meeting of the minds when people ignore even the basic premise of a term.


> Having ~50% market share is not a monopoly.

Most competition regulators disagree. 50% of a market is well above the threshold for both the US and EU to consider a company to be a monopoly. They usually treat the cut-off as around 20%.




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