Whatever side you favor in Apple’s court battles, can we all agree on this one thing?

Apple has for years been fighting antitrust battles all around the world, most of them concerning the App Store, and most of them coming down to a single issue: having monopoly control over the sale of iPhone apps. Opinions on both sides of the debate are strongly held, and there’s little sign of that changing anytime soon – but it seems to me that there is one thing we could perhaps all agree on … Briefly addressing the monopoly issue Let’s just quickly address the monopoly issue, before some commenters get side-tracked with it. Regulators argue that Apple holds a monopoly on iPhone apps because, prior to being forced to allow competing app stores within the EU, there was no way for a developer to sell an iPhone app other than through the App Store. Apple has argued that it doesn’t have a monopoly because we shouldn’t be looking at iPhone apps in isolation, but rather the mobile app market as a whole. But antitrust legislation has literally never been about monopolies (hence the ... Read full article.