Google Shuts Out Competitors on Android? Hardly

Re:Google Shuts Out Competitors on Android? Hardly by bduerst on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @02:35PM (#11583241)

So is Apple preinstalling iTunes as the default music service antitrust too?

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Re:Google Shuts Out Competitors on Android? Hardly by nugget on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @02:46PM (#11583365)

If Apple had vast majority of market share, pre-installed iTunes, integrated iTunes functionality throughout the OS so that it had more intuitive prominence than other competing services, then yes, that would be close to the definition of antitrust as I understand it (using dominant control in one market to create or maintain dominant control in a second market). This is what Microsoft was penalized for, appropriately, with Windows and the browser market.

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Re:Google Shuts Out Competitors on Android? Hardly by bduerst on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @04:42PM (#11584360)

Got it - that makes much more sense.

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Re:Google Shuts Out Competitors on Android? Hardly by mingfli on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @02:38PM (#11583271)

It could be if iOS or OSX dominated the market share, but I don't think that's the case right now.

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