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> iOS and Android taken together are clearly a monopoly though.

That's deceptive language that undermines your argument.

A monopoly is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.

If you said "duopoly" your argument would be more easily entertained or if you said "cartel". However, neither of these two characterizations stand up to scrutiny either.



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