For the life of me I cannot understand how Intel was forced to settle on EU case, Microsoft now has to offer people options on what browser you use, but Apple is getting away scott free without any punishment for its vile antitrust violations. This is fucking sad. I hope they appeal.
Antitrust violations how? They don't have a monopoly that consumers haven't created for them, and there are competitive alternatives to all of their products.
Alright, hear me out on this, but Intel was dragged through the courts for their deal with Dell where they gave Dell a discount on processors as long as they didn't sell AMD. Microsoft was dragged through the courts for offering their own browser with their operating system. Apple is a completely closed architecture, they only offer their own browser packaged with the system, their operating system is only licensed to run on their hardware, iTunes is only licensed to sync with their hardware, and somehow that's alright because they only have 10% of the marketshare? I've always felt that the complaints that were lobbed against Microsoft in the 90s when they were a much more ruthlessly competitive company are pretty much exactly the same complaints I have about Apple today, only they support less open standards, they offer no competitive advantage to OEMs and their architecture is more closed. I just think that a double standard exists, clearly it now exists in our courts as well.
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
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