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McMahon, Kathryn E. (2022) USA : monopolization of mobile ecosystems - the decision in Epic v Apple. Concurrences Review (3). 107327. ISSN 1773-9578. [ 🗎 Public]. [ (✓) hoa:511 ]
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Apps for smartphones and tablet devices are increasingly important sites of innovation and the basis for monetization for digital platforms. Apple is the sole distributor of apps on iOS and prevents iOS users from downloading any apps from any source other than Apple’s own storefront, the App Store. Apple requires all in-app purchases to be made exclusively via Apple’s own proprietary in-app purchase (IAP) system and charges app developers a 30% commission. Apple also restricts developers from informing users of alternative (usually cheaper) purchasing possibilities outside of the app (“anti-steering provisions”). Epic, the creator of the popular online video game Fortnite, brought an antitrust case against Apple in the US district court (California) claiming that the exclusivity and anti-steering provisions amounted to maintenance of a monopoly, denial of an essential facility and unreasonable restraint of trade. This litigation raises broader antitrust questions regarding whether mobile ecosystems can be defined as separate markets and be subject to “monopolization” through the exercise of “intermediation power.” Like an aftermarket, this “lock in” on one side of the market can co-exist with a high degree of competition on the other side of the market.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor K Law [LC] > K Law (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Antitrust law -- United States, Exclusionary rule (Evidence) , Mobile apps, Monopolies, Internet games industry, iOS (Electronic resource), Apple Inc., Epic Games, Inc. | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Concurrences Review | ||||||
| Publisher: | Institut de Droit de la Concurrence | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1773-9578 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Concurrences Review | ||||||
| Official Date: | September 2022 | ||||||
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| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 107327 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Article published in Concurrences Review, N° 3-2022, www.concurrences.com | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 September 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 September 2022 | ||||||
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