a)There are four types of market structures: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly and monopoly. Which category would Apple fall under?
Apple Inc said it plans to argue that it faces abundant competition in the market for video game
transactions to defend itself against antitrust allegations by "Fortnite" maker Epic Games, the iPhone
maker said on Thursday.
Epic sued Apple last year in federal court in California, alleging the 15% to 30% commissions that
Apple charges for the use of its in-app payment systems and Apple's longstanding practice of
exercising control over which apps can be installed on its devices amount to anticompetitive behavior.
The dispute arose after Epic tried to implement its own in-app payment system in the popular
"Fortnite" game and Apple subsequently banned the game from its App Store.
The case is to be heard in May in Oakland, California, by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez
Rogers, who will have to rule on which notion of a "market" is the correct one for analyzing Apple's
moves for signs of anticompetitive conduct.
Epic has framed its case around the idea that Apple's iPhones, with an installed base of more than 1
billion users, represent their own distinct market for software developers. Epic has argued that Apple
has
devices and says it abuses that power by forcing developers to deliver their software through the App
Store, where developers are subject to fees on some transactions.
In a filing that Apple planned to make Thursday, the company rejected that notion and said the proper
market to analyze the case is the video game transaction market, which includes platforms such as
Nintendo Co Ltd and Microsoft Corp's Xbox gaming consoles, which also limit the software that can
run on their hardware and charge fees to developers
Apple said it plans to argue that consumers have many choices on how to carry out video game
transactions, including purchasing virtual tokens from game developers on other platforms such as
Windows PCs and using the tokens on iPhones with no fees to the game developer.
a)There are four types of market structures:
competition
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