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Re:The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct... by Apocryphon on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:19PM (#24014267)
Neither did AT&T.
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Re:The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct... by scarface74 on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:34PM (#24014453)
If you wanted phone service, you had to buy it from AT&T - because of a government granted monopoly.
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Re:The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct... by Apocryphon on Friday July 31, 2020 @09:02PM (#24016285)
Funnily enough, the government-granted monopoly only came as a consequence of a sweetheart deal that AT&T cut with the federal government- after the gov't first tried to pursue antitrust to halt AT&T's monopolistic activities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment

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