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A comment on Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf] by greedo on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:21PM (#23935019)
So again, Chrome was released in 2008, seven years after the settlement. There was no ready alternative to Explorer at the time of the settlement.
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Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf] by twblalock on Friday July 24, 2020 @03:43PM (#23943654)
Netscape Navigator and Communicator, Mozilla (the original one), and Opera all existed at the time and were trivially easy to obtain.
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Re:Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf] by greedo on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:50PM (#23945299)
Neither Netscape Navigator nor Opera were free. Mozilla took over a decade to become competitive. It wasn't until Safari and Chrome came along that there was any real competition to IE. IE was the web for a long long time.
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