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birdsbolt | 10 years ago

Microsoft case has nothing to do with this - even the market share numbers (that are obviously way smaller in case of Apple) do not influence the absence of lawsuits.

Apple produces the hardware and the software.

Microsoft imposed software restrictions (or lets say defaults) on hardware sold by vendors which turned out undesirable for EU. If Apple offered iOS on other phones and restricted the browser application to Safari, they would obviously get sued.

Since they "own" the hardware, and bundle it with their own software - there's nothing illegal about it.

Not that I condone of that kind of behavior, just clearing up the reasoning that was not present in the article.

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