Re:Antitrust inquiry into Apple over Section 3.3.1
by lutorm on Monday May 03, 2010 @11:35AM
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They avoided anti-trust because they have a single-digit percentage of the PC market. It seems their position with the iPhone in the smartphone market is much more dominant, though I don't know what the numbers are.
Contrast this with Windows on any number of manufacturers of PCs. Where Microsoft went wrong is that they said, "We'll give you OEM pricing if you agree to this, this, this and this. Otherwise we'll make it difficult for you to compete." It's that sort of bullying that's a problem, because they don't own the entire stack.