How can Apple be said to have a "monopoly" in cell phones when they have only 20% of the cell phone market regardless of what percentage of profits they take home? The sheer numbers of Android Phones overwhelms Apple, remember? Apple is but one company with a minority presence in the market. . . outnumbered by the 225 Android makers.
Yes you are right, on Apple, but Obama claims to be fighting for “fairness” and worried about “income inequality” and the gist of the false need for “net neutrality” is the “economic unfairness” of the telecoms with their near monopoly power, including their ability to charge some customers differently - which both Google and Apple do. And yes that concern is because of the false belief that the telecoms have some sort of near monopoly power - which they don’t - but Google does have near monopoly status in Internet browsing and as generator or contributor to the majority of Internet and Mobile ad revenue. My point is that if everything that Obama said was true, and he actually believed it, about what is “bad” about the power of the telecoms, he’d be going after the Googles and the Apples as well, as just as “unfair”, “unequal” and in Google’s case near-monopoly like.
But the truth is not the case. Net neutrality IS about rewarding some companies at the expense of others and the largest of those desirous of “net neutrality” and who stand to financially benefit the most, are big supporters of Obama, like Google.