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Apple isn't competition, Apple is a closed market, more anticompetitive than Microsoft and only undone by the degree of their control.
Microsoft wasn’t creating a car, and Apple wasn’t the dominant car manufacturer
... And? Apple isn't even the dominant anything manufacturer, at least worldwide.
I don't know why people are so upset. You've already got your closed market, overpriced, social "mine is bigger than yours (but not really)" compensation brand in the EV market. It's called a Tesla.
Apple is the dominant manufacturer of really bad peripherals. Even cheap Chinese knockoff brands can't quite match the utter nafness of Apple keyboards.
...a closed market you don't have to participate in...
You do understand whole markets are hurt by big monopolies.
If Apple had a monopoly on smartphones you’d have a point
Monopolies are not a yes or no thing. Since Apple has a large enough market share that it is able to strangle competitors just through having that kind of market share, it is having a monopolistic effect on various markets.
For example, the smartphone market, if the smartphone market was perfectly competitive, if I didn't like Apple's and Google's business, I would be able to go to a third seller and get similar products. If I didn't like them, I could go to a fourth, and so on until it becomes meaningless. Like the market for actual apples for example.
Since that is not true, Apple is distorting the smartphone market with its large market share, making it have monopolistic tendencies.
In what way is Apple "strangling competitors"? You have no clue what you're talking about. Just say you hate Apple and be done.
Just a few cases:
Apple concedes on ‘anticompetitive’ restrictions in App Store
Apple Pay is anticompetitive, says EU in preliminary ruling
Apple’s App Store Draws E.U. Antitrust Charge
I don't hate Apple, they are behaving as a corporation does. I hate the perversion of free markets that our economies are becoming due to corruption.
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what's with the dots?
Mocking through gross exaggeration.