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trollbridgetoday at 1:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

Some people think that being the exclusive supplier of iOS based devices is a “monopoly”.


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twoodfintoday at 3:11 PM

Also, I’ve observed a rhetorical trend among the “anti-bigness” crowd towards defining “monopoly” down:

“You may think a monopoly is an overwhelmingly dominant position as a supplier of a good or service, but that’s just naive popular economics! Acshually, according to the latest economic theories (by economists who share our politics), a monopoly is any firm that is big enough to have market power—like pricing power—to do things that can harm a competitor unfairly.”

Us dummies will keep calling that competition.

vel0citytoday at 2:32 PM

McDonald's is the exclusive supplier of Big Macs and McNuggets. They're a monopoly.

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