It seems crazy to say that Apple is succeeding due to the anticompetitive practice of not allowing people into the Apple store.
Ok. Lets take a toy example. Suppose that texting didn’t work between apple and android. And suppose the market split was 50⁄50. Then apple and android are equally good in this respect, both let you text 50% of the population.
And it doesn’t matter whether the apple is trying to make the texting possible and android is avoiding it or visa versa.
In this example, apple is making the experience worse for people that do not buy it’s products. This is a clear market failure.
In many things, you need a tech stack, you need A and B and C working together to get a useful result.
If, for some reason a monopoly forms on one level of the tech stack, giving that monopoly unlimited power to mess with other layers is not a good idea.
If you somehow became a monopoly electricity supplier, insisting that no one was allowed to use your electricity with products you don’t like would be unreasonable. If the market for A fails, and produces a monopoly, then the market for B and C should be protected from the whims of the monopoly on A.
Ok. Lets take a toy example. Suppose that texting didn’t work between apple and android. And suppose the market split was 50⁄50. Then apple and android are equally good in this respect, both let you text 50% of the population.
And it doesn’t matter whether the apple is trying to make the texting possible and android is avoiding it or visa versa.
In this example, apple is making the experience worse for people that do not buy it’s products. This is a clear market failure.
In many things, you need a tech stack, you need A and B and C working together to get a useful result.
If, for some reason a monopoly forms on one level of the tech stack, giving that monopoly unlimited power to mess with other layers is not a good idea.
If you somehow became a monopoly electricity supplier, insisting that no one was allowed to use your electricity with products you don’t like would be unreasonable. If the market for A fails, and produces a monopoly, then the market for B and C should be protected from the whims of the monopoly on A.