Not a specialist here, but my understanding is that whether a service is or not anticompetitive is subject to how its market is structured. So e.g. if you're not a dominant market player then it "is" not anticompetitive ("is" in a pragmatic way, i.e. you will not be prosecuted), whereas if you are disrupting the market it is.
All that to say that currently the market for voice assistants is nascent. No one has paid (directly) for Siri or Ok-google, and amazon can also make the case that you don't pay for Alexa, you pay for the device.
Now that OpenAI has a better service, that is also unbundled from hardware, and understandably people might want to substitute Siri, then iOS only offering Siri can start to be considered anticompetitive.
The relevant market might be “digital voice assistants on iOS”, similar to how recent rulings against the AppStore monopoly have used “AppStores on iOS” as the market.
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Not a specialist here, but my understanding is that whether a service is or not anticompetitive is subject to how its market is structured. So e.g. if you're not a dominant market player then it "is" not anticompetitive ("is" in a pragmatic way, i.e. you will not be prosecuted), whereas if you are disrupting the market it is.
All that to say that currently the market for voice assistants is nascent. No one has paid (directly) for Siri or Ok-google, and amazon can also make the case that you don't pay for Alexa, you pay for the device.
Now that OpenAI has a better service, that is also unbundled from hardware, and understandably people might want to substitute Siri, then iOS only offering Siri can start to be considered anticompetitive.
You’re correct in that a market has to first be defined.
I also wonder if the way that Apple is integrating OpenAI into Siri now is a gambit against such a thing.
If Siri acts as a frontend to other competing products, then it likely keeps the wolves at bay so to speak.
The relevant market might be “digital voice assistants on iOS”, similar to how recent rulings against the AppStore monopoly have used “AppStores on iOS” as the market.