Apple posts record profit, why no monopoly case?

[Indy]

Not seeing the monopoly here in any way. Have you not heard of Android?

If you want to monopoly-bust, I can think of probably 50 better examples to get mad about.

Why does everybody hate Apple so much? Meaning: you can always go Android. I've had both.

Here's a monopoly to hate: Comcast.

[fstarcstar]

I don't think the market share of their products or profit margins should be the focus of a monopoly. The issue I personally find with Apple and government was when Obama himself was consistently meeting with Tim Cook and others, and even had him sit behind Michelle Obama during a State of the Union address. Oh boy, we made like 4 Macs here in the US woo hoo! Look at Tim Cook everybody! I mean, really?

We all know our politicians have had ties with private business, it'll always be there. But if we wanted to be concerned about anything its how buddy buddy Apple is with our government officials.

I mean, the Department of Justice and the EU went after Microsoft for years because they bundled Internet Explorer with their OS. It wasn't until recently when MS was free from that nonsense. I think there are certain things we should look at Apple, Google and Microsoft in terms of their practices (theres big lists already) but going after monopoly status is a stretch. At least for now of course.

[Philly]

So why is Apple a monopoly exactly? Because they're meeting with Obama?

[Southern Dad]

[Spider]

I think some iMacs are put together here as well.



If large scale Apple production jobs were to return to the US, I'd be FAR more supportive of that company. I don't mean just assembly.

[Southern Dad]

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[Southern Dad]

Yet, Apple doesn't have a monopoly on browsers, operating systems, computers, media players, cell phones, etc. On this Mac, I've got Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari as browsers. I've got Windows 8 and OS X Yosemite. I've got Kingston RAM and a Western Digital hard drive. My processor is an Intel i7. Where's the monopoly again? Apple makes a small fraction of the computers out there. They're not even close to a monopoly.