Because the only monopoly they have is on Apple products. There are other phones, other laptops and other tablets available. No one is being forced to develop for IOS, no one is being forced to buy Apple products whether they want them or not. They may be the currently dominant player in the smartphone category, but unless both Google and Microsoft decide to abandon that market they can't be said to have a monopoly.
tl;dr: You may not like their policies regarding selling their software to their audience, but you are not required to participate in their marketplace to sell software.
Because they don't have a majority share of any major market, despite what their press releases say. They own a fraction of the cellphone, laptop, mobile markets.
And they are being investigated for anti-trust WRT price-fixing on e-books. Only letting apps they approve onto their own platform is not anti-competitive or monopolistic, in fact it's the reason they're losing to Android 2:1. They're weakening their position in the market with every one of these stories that comes out.
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Can someone please explain to me why Apple still has yet to be investigated for anti-trust?
Because the only monopoly they have is on Apple products. There are other phones, other laptops and other tablets available. No one is being forced to develop for IOS, no one is being forced to buy Apple products whether they want them or not. They may be the currently dominant player in the smartphone category, but unless both Google and Microsoft decide to abandon that market they can't be said to have a monopoly.
tl;dr: You may not like their policies regarding selling their software to their audience, but you are not required to participate in their marketplace to sell software.
Because they don't have a majority share of any major market, despite what their press releases say. They own a fraction of the cellphone, laptop, mobile markets.
And they are being investigated for anti-trust WRT price-fixing on e-books. Only letting apps they approve onto their own platform is not anti-competitive or monopolistic, in fact it's the reason they're losing to Android 2:1. They're weakening their position in the market with every one of these stories that comes out.