I see apple as like LVMH, but for phones. It has a minority of overall sales, but a majority of the “luxury” part of the market. This gives them influence over the whole market, but not a real monopoly.
It's strange how they've convinced people that, considering there's nothing at all luxurious about their products, not even the price...
What's luxurious about Apple products is that they tend to respect your time
Does your time feel respected when you're leaving the Kindle app to open a web browser, search for the book that was next in the series, buy it, and get back to your Kindle app to continue reading ?
Ouch, this just happened to me the other day and it was irritating that Apple forces other companies to force users to do a dance
They don't force it. Amazon, for example, just doesn't want to pay the 30% platform cut. Understandable, but not force, just deterrence.