[lukealization]

Is there a possibility this could fall afoul of antitrust laws or be deemed monopolistic behaviour? What are the legal considerations here?

[danielbarla]

Depending on which stats you look at, iOS has around 12-16% of the global market share for smartphones, which is likely too small to invoke antitrust laws (which are there to discourage anti-competitive behaviour from players who are "too big to avoid").

[pjmlp]

None, regardless of what geek think they know about monopolies, what Apple has isn't one according to the law, so they are free to do whatever they feel like on their own platform.

[nobodyshere]

That’s fake news. There’s nothing to discuss here.

[verytrivial]

If you mean false, please say false.

[finchisko]

Not completely false.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/08/apples-widened-ban-on-temp...