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		tokyodude on Jan 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M ... AFAIK that's not how it works. For example go look up Microsoft's monopoly. The commonly held believe is Microsoft was declared to have a monopoly on personal computer OSes but that is false. Microsoft was found to have a monopoly on OSes for Intel based machines. So by that same logic Apple has a monopoly on OSes for A series (A10, A11, A12) based smartphones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

zapzupnz on Jan 1, 2019 | [–]

Can a company have a monopoly over its own products? That doesn't make sense.

kbwt on Jan 1, 2019 | | [–]

iOS apps aren't Apple's products.

zapzupnz on Jan 2, 2019 | | | [–]

I was talking about the processor series.

macintux on Jan 1, 2019 | [–]

A-series chips are just (very good) ARMs. I don’t buy that equivalence at all.

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