alt Hacker NewsWe both know that the market share refers to the smartphone market share of which Apple has about 21%.
For iPhone apps Apple is way behind with about 0.005% of the total 2.17 million iPhone apps.
We both know that the market share refers to the smartphone market share of which Apple has about 21%.
For iPhone apps Apple is way behind with about 0.005% of the total 2.17 million iPhone apps.
The ONLY interesting market share here isn't how many apps Apple create, or how large share of the smartphones they have. It's how much of the distribution of apps they control on iOS (which easily reaches the bar of being a market in itself).
I.e. the monopoly question is: if apple takes X% for each app in this market, and a competitor can't take less, then it's a monopoly.