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- Title
ANTITRUST IN THE CONSUMER PLATFORM ECONOMY: HOW APPLE HAS ABUSED ITS MOBILE PLATFORM DOMINANCE.
- Authors
Shao, Shili
- Abstract
Apple's iOS smartphone platform wields de facto monopoly power thanks to its dominant revenue share and Apple's sticky product ecosystem. Apple has abused this power to tie the distribution of digital goods on iOS to its proprietary in-app purchase payment system to impose a 30% tax and extract supracompetitive profits. Moreover, Apple has blocked rivals and favored its own apps using its control of the App Store, distorting competition both on the iOS platform and between smartphone platforms. Courts today are increasingly hostile to lawsuits against dominant firm behavior, however, creating doctrinal obstacles that impede antitrust enforcement against tech platforms such as Apple. This Note makes the antitrust case against Apple and explores why features of consumer tech platforms Apple represents demand a reform of the current antitrust regime.
- Subjects
ANTITRUST law; DE facto corporations; PAYMENT systems; MOBILE app development; CLASS actions
- Publication
Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 1, p353
- ISSN
1086-3818
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15779/Z380K26C09