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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by jmfayard on Saturday October 01, 2016 @01:36PM (#12618927)
The point is that given how cars and software work, "ios devices" is a meaningful category while "ford cars" is not.

Or which things can monopolistic companies do that non-monopolistic companies can't do? Can or do Apple do those things?

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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by onli on Saturday October 01, 2016 @01:49PM (#12618996)
It's not a meaningful category. They are all mobile phones, or smartphones if need be to distinguish there.

Which practices a monopolistic company can do, but is not allowed to, is written clearly in the article: Forcing/Paying other companies to pre-install its proprietary apps. A non-monopolistic company is allowed to do that.

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