Market power is a specific term used in economics relating to how much control a company has over the price of a good or service. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_power)

It does not have anything to do with stock market rankings.

Microsoft had a very large amount of market power in the operating system market, high enough that it was considered monopoly power, and that is why they lost their case.

Thanks for the mainsplaining

What you fail to understand is that money is power

Especially when money can be used to

- buy competitors

- put them out of business

- sue them on the most insignificant detail

- sue other small companies just because they use a different fruit in their logo. Why? Because you have money and you can! (see prepear logo fight for reference)

- stall job market to keep workers from going to competitors (see Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees)

- abuse your market position, fines in the range of billions are peanuts for you (see French antitrust authority fined Apple for 1.2 billions)

etc etc

- did we forget that they have a monopoly in a luxury brand used mainly by managers and very powerful people that involves handling their private data and can exactly "control the price of good and services" on that platform at their will?

Companies that make yachts have no monopoly on means of transport, but they make boats for people like Paul Allen and have much more power than Fiat/Chrysler

Last but not least

You are wrong again

Microsoft lost their case because they ABUSED of their dominant position, that's exactly what Apple is doing in the iOS market

And it's much worse because MS was an outsider at the times, Apple is the richest company in the World

US is not dominating the World because they are better - the contrary is probably true - or have a larger market influence, but because they have more money than anybody else and spend more than anybody else on military budget (also used to spy on allies on civil matters, see USA spying Angela Merkel)

> Microsoft lost their case because they ABUSED of their dominant position, that's exactly what Apple is doing in the iOS market

Microsoft used their monopoly power in the operating system market to forcibly acquire market share in the web browser market. The case against Microsoft was based on their monopoly power.

Apple has no monopoly power so you cannot claim the situations are the same, sorry.

I've made my point. You seem more interested in off-topic ranting rather than engaging in good faith so I'm going to move on.

> Microsoft used their monopoly power in the operating system market to forcibly acquire market share in the web browser market.

Apple used their monopoly power to forcibly aquire market share for their Safari browser

(If Apple has no power, how comes that they killed Flash and are stalling the adoption of PWAs?)

> Apple has no monopoly power so you cannot claim the situations are the same, sorry.

So I can make an alternative OS for an Apple smartphone or tablet?

> You seem more interested in off-topic ranting than engaging in good faith so I'm going to mov

I just don't buy bollocks