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Re:Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users ... by coldtea on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:24AM (#23846546)
>Apple has Ios in an iron grip

iOS is their own product. Every company has its own products on an "iron grip", as well as controlling who gets to partner with them (and e.g. sell something on their platform).

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Re:Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users ... by mD5pPxMcS6fVWKE on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:38PM (#23849662)
Windows is Microsoft own product. Anyone can run anything on it without anyone's permission.
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Re:Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users ... by coldtea on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:19PM (#23851114)
That's because Microsoft allows it, and (b) Microsoft has a monopoly on their market (not on the "Windows market", but like 98% on the whole Home/Enterprise PC space) and abused it so they were forced to open up.

If Microsoft had just a small share of the Home/Enterprise market with Windows, they'd could close it in any way they want, same way the game companies do for their consoles or Apple for iOS.

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Re:Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users ... by mD5pPxMcS6fVWKE on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:30PM (#23899407)
I think the answer is much simpler: at the time Windows was created, no one in their most sadistic totalitarian dream could have imagined such evil as an app store.
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