Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS

Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by heisenbit on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:15AM (#12659998)

This will be interesting to watch. Apple has become a dominant player in the mobile industry and being in that role it restricts what they can do now (and could earlier get away with). Bundling related rulings had huge impact in the past on e.g. IBM and Microsoft.

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Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by bluesign on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:18AM (#12660020)

Apple is not that much dominant like Microsoft or IBM in the past.

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Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by sturgill on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:24AM (#12660064)

In the mobile space? They own the mobile space. Which is why everything is labeled an "iPhone killer." No one labels a new product as an "Android killer."

This is still their market to lose.

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Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by vertex-four on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:32AM (#12660114)

They have some of the high end, competing heavily with Samsung's Galaxy S line and the occasional high end phone from other manufacturers. There's a lot of space in even the high-end market that's not owned by Apple, never mind all the lower markets.

Just because tech magazines really like them doesn't mean they actually have most of the market.

If you really want to go look for something to pick on... go look at how US telecoms companies fuck over the market by directly selling phones tied to contracts, making it incredibly difficult for a manufacturer to sell a phone if the telecoms companies don't want to put their weight behind it.

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Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by dloose on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:33AM (#12660120)

Apple accounts for about 1/8 of smartphone shipments (http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp) and 1/4 of mobile web traffic (http://marketshare.hitslink.com). Based on those numbers, I don't think you can say they own the mobile space. They may be the most influential company in it, but they have real, effective competition

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Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by kbart on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:32AM (#12660110)

Sport cars are often compared to Ferrari, but we don't say that Ferrari "owns a car space". iOS falls behind Android in pretty much every market share statistics I've seen.

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Re:Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS by madeofpalk on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:33AM (#12660117)

No. They own just "their portion" of the mobile space.

There are more Android phones in the market than iOS. It's very hard to say that iOS is abusing their position of 'power' and negatively influencing the browser market like Microsoft was back when.

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