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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by danieldk on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @06:43AM (#12588541)
There are political avenues to explore. Just as Microsoft was hit hard by a number of anti-monopolistic EU decisions regarding Internet Explorer, Apple in particular could be the target of an action in that space.

Why? In the 5 largest European markets, Android has 3/4th marketshare [1]. How can Apple be targeted for monopolistic behavior?

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/11/android-is-eating-apples-i...

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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by s_kilk on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @06:45AM (#12588547)
Plus, I'm much more worried about Googles vampiric approach to personal data, rather than Apple merely making it hard to deploy software.
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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by espadrine on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:19AM (#12588699)
> How can Apple be targeted for monopolistic behavior?

Because they don't even allow other browser engines on their iOS platform, which is explicitly what was the subject of the "ballot box" ruling.

Monopolies are per-product class. Apple is responsible for both the hardware and the software. All it takes is having one of their products own half of its market.

… which, of course, could take a long time. It did happen for tablets circa 2011, I believe.

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