Apple owns patents for iOS and for the App Store platform. It does not force developers or competitors to use its products either – Fortnite or Spotify’s offerings do not constitute necessity goods and can be purchased elsewhere – not only through Apple’s App Store. …

“Watson had never liked the clumsy hyphenated title of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company” and chose the new name both for its aspirations and to escape the confines of “office appliance”. On February 14, 1924, CTR’s name was formally changed to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

Wal-Mart does not qualify to be referred to as a monopoly because it is not the only giant retail chain in the market. Monopolies exist within markets as sole suppliers of products and services. Wal-Mart is an oligopoly because it exists in an oligopoly market structure.

Companies such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon have built natural monopolies for various online services due in large part to first-mover advantages, network effects, and natural economies of scale involved with handling large quantities of data and information.

Tesla is a manufacturer of electric cars. Tesla would be considered a monopoly if there were no other companies that sold electric cars.

Netflix also isn’t a monopoly because it does have competition and it can’t raise prices with losing customers, he says. The company is still adding customers, but at some point, its growth with stop.

Disney’s emergence as a monopoly power in the film industry threatens the viability of creative independent films, places movie theaters under exploitative pressure, limits the diversity of films available, cheapens our culture, and worsens economic and political inequality.