NYC's subway system is an amalgamation of three systems, two of them built privately (but both of whom subsequently went bankrupt) and the third built by the city.
Better framing in their lawsuits- being a ‘market’ is less a thing in a monoculture- i.e. the market for Apple phones vs the market for all Android phones from a variety of makers.
Also in the worldwide market it most definitely isn’t a monopoly in phones at all- which is exactly why the EU had to reform their laws (DMA ect)to get regulatory powers over them.
"It's not a monopoly" is exactly the framing. Antitrust isn't inherently concerned with monopolies, it's concerned with market power. It's just that a monopolist has no room to move in claiming that they don't have market power.
They also play this trick where they pretend the only market is "phones" and ignore all of the complementary markets they're tying together with their phones, like app distribution and browser engines etc., since the market definitions for those shouldn't be the same as it is for "phones" when an app store that can be used on Google and Samsung phones can't be used (and therefore doesn't compete) on Apple phones and vice versa.
And if the goal is non-interactive solution finding.
I used to do business automation work in day job, and there are surprising utility-to-humans differences between "manual" -> "helps interactively" -> "99% automated" -> "100% automated".
In the latter 2 categories, you almost don't care about runtime for most use cases, because meatbags require 8 hours of sleep / day.
As long as you have sufficient hardware+electricity to throw at the problem, that's a lot of time to inefficiently finish something. (Also: a lot of time for a model to get up to god-knows-what in a poorly sandboxed consumer environment... but that's a problem for future society)
Made by the people rather than the politicians- the mainline politicians all thought it would/wanted it to fail- they just thought they’d get a boost from catering to a disaffected minority.
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