rea⋅son⋅ing –nounOkay, you said:
1. the act or process of a person who reasons.
2. the process of forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences from facts or premises.
3. the reasons, arguments, proofs, etc., resulting from this process.
It’s kind of funny, because if you really think about Apple is actually the monopoly.It seems obvious that you label Apple a "monopoly" because they are the only outfit that produces their products. You think that because they are a sole-source for those products, and defend their trademarks and IP, that they qualify as a "monopoly".
I claim that is not a reasonable conclusion, given the proper definition of "monopoly", which necessarily includes the characteristic of being able to force people to buy their product because it's the only one available.
Apple makes computer systems. There are scores of computer system makers.
Arguing that a company with only 10% market-share can "force" consumers to buy their products is laughable. So I claim it is faulty reasoning, to form the conclusion that Apple is a monopoly, starting from the fact that they own trademarks.
Even at that rate it is technically possible to be judged a monopoly. British Airways got nailed with something like 30+% domestic marketshare. They were doing travel agent loyalty programs with rebates and other incentives to squeeze the then-growing Virgin out of the domestic market. They had the cash to do it, and Virgin didn't.