Okay, so it has to be something you purchase - we're slowly getting closer to the true opinion here.

Sony is a monopoly as well then? They decide what gets sold in the Playstation store. Same with Nintendo.

Ford and Tesla are monopolies, they solely decide what is software is sold or used in their car's infotainment center stores, despite the fact that I have purchased the car!

AWS is a monopoly, despite the fact that I purchase an EC2 instance from them for one year they will not let me run certain kinds of software on it (Parler, some crypto, etc.)

If you purchase a physical device, yes. You don't buy devices from AWS, you rent. I'm not sure what's hard about this.

I notice how you intentionally didn't respond to the other two points, interesting.

I responded to all the points. What's unclear?

So Ford and Tesla are monopolies?

If you buy a physical device from them and they control what you can install on it, yes.

Hilarious opinion. Of course they’re not, Tesla and Ford don’t have a dominant market share anywhere and have a tremendous amount of competitors. I think it would help you to take a look at what the word monopoly means.

How many vendors can you buy software for your Tesla from? How many vendors can you buy software for your Dell from?

> How many vendors can you buy software for your Tesla from?

Not many. That's fine. Just buy another car. There's plenty of competition in the space.

Not "not many". One. That's what a monopoly is.

You’re welcome to purchase a car from another vendor. This framing is dishonest

You're not understanding my point. I'm not saying Apple has a monopoly on phones, I'm saying they have a monopoly on iPhone apps. It's the App Store that's a monopoly, and the EU agrees with me, hence the DMA.