Comment by carlosjobim

> consumers who have no comparable choice but to transact via Apple

A comparable choice would be to use a telephone from another maker. And they come for much less than $1000.

> Imagine if every time you wanted to switch which big-box store you shopped at they charged you a $500 entry fee and you had to re-buy all of your household electronics.

I'm imagining it, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Apple or Google or their conduct. When I buy a new car, any old accessories I have purchased for the old car will obviously not fit.

> AirBnB may have four times the market cap of Vrbo, but their addressable market, both vendor and consumer, is the same set of people.

Same for Apple. Vendors are free to develop for several platforms and users are free to have cell phones of different marks.

In this particular subject of search engines, Apple and Google have acted in an anticompetitive way with the bribe payments. That doesn't have much to do with monopolies.