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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by nemothekid on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:52AM (#17558942)
>Imagine that Apple forced telcos to block Spotify, to force users to iTunes, and if they didn't then no iPhones on that carriers network.

Doesn't Apple already do this with the App Store? You can't buy an iPhone with Spotify pre-installed and Apple Music can leverage its position of not having to give another company a 30% cut to undercut spotify's prices.

Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by ehsankia on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @01:40PM (#17560414)
Exactly. Google isn't blocking other browsers, so the analogy is flawed. Apple is forcing iTunes to be pre-installed, so they are using their dominance on the iPhone to push many other services.
Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by cmsj on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:51PM (#17559979)
Correct, but Apple doesn't have an overwhelming market majority, so under antitrust laws it isn't capable of inhibiting competition.
Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by greggman on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:18PM (#17560798)
going from the actual ruling against microsoft, that ruling was microsoft had a monopoly on Intel base computers and not computers in general. Apple has an even larger monopoly on A9, A10, A11 based computers. in fact they have 100% monopoly for those computers