[MobileMania]

Is the iPhone a monopoly or not?

[Jellotime91]

Somehow I feel like this post has been put through a translator... Especially where it reference's Google's "Robot"... The English is not really understandable. Sorry.

[lungho]

Is the iPhone a monopoly or not?

Most certainly not. The iPhone has competitors, therefore it is not a monopoly. Perhaps the word you are looking for is "proprietary."

[hockeyb213]

Considering the iphone only has somewhere around 20% of the marketshare for smartphones I would most definitely say it is not because it has no controlling amount of marketshare.

[applejosh]

It's not a monopoly. A closed system, pretty much, but not a monopoly. Android is making inroads and adding competition. RIM has a good hold in general and especially in corporations. Windows Mobile 7 is set to debut this holiday season, and Palm/WebOS just got a huge boost by HP's purchase of them.

[Jellotime91]

It's a monopoly on seamless user experience and access to 200,000 apps... :P but it's not the only modern smartphone OS, it just happens to be the best.

[Wiltron]

A specific product can't be a monopoly rather the producing company is. Apple may be a monopoly, not the iPhone.

Now, as for market shares and target market yes they own a specific area, and fail in others, but what exactly they win/fail at is up to the user

[AlexanderRivera]

The answer is no. It has competition...and if it dominates it's because of the LACK of creativity on the competition's stand point.

[Guzman]

Nope, but there's an app for it