Or a car, or a tractor, or...
Also, like samsung, apple will only be providing like 18 months of updates
Just if you want the convince, security, ecosystem, support you can expect to also in the same price point start supporting all the possible malware you will be able to sideload to your car, tractor and iPhone.
But I guess most commentators want to eat the cake, sell it and keep it at the same time.
And it turns out that was actually a benefit for consumers.
“Included in clean installs of Windows 10 as well as upgrades to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 or Windows 7.”
My Windows 10 also plays H.264 from a clean install (defaults to Movies and TV viewer) and the list of installed codecs (supplied from Microsoft) contains mp4, xvid and even divx, so no idea where you get the idea that Windows 10 only sells as a N edition. I bought my licenses in Sweden.
If you try to play anything else, you'll have to buy the Microsoft H.265 Codec Pack in the Microsoft Store.
Which, depending on device, country, and time, varies between 0,99€ and 4,99$.
The point of Windows N was to avoid users (or governments) having to pay for bundled codecs they don't need.
This provides the same situation as with Windows N: No Bundle pricing, no Microsoft programs having any special access.
Windows 10 comes with Skype pre-installed.
I’m starting to think you’re merely guessing instead of actually having used Windows 10, because nothing you’ve said so far has checked out with actual installations.
You can just go to the Microsoft store and you’ll see “Windows 10” and “Windows 10 N”, which should be sufficient enough to prove that not all Windows 10 are N editions.
> “Well plaintiffs always want me to define relevant markets as narrowly as possible. It helps their case. And defendants always want me to define markets as broad as possible, because it helps their case.”
The big elephant in the room is gaming consoles.
If you see iPhone more or less in line with PC/Mac, you may already have made up your mind on how "relevant markets" are defined, and so naturally pre-inclined to side with Epic.
OTOH if you see it more or less in line with Xbox/Playstation/Switch (every one of them having a unique store that charges 30%), you may naturally be pre-inclined to side with Apple.
The judges will eventually get to define what the "relevant market" is, and no amount of HN arguments will change that.
If I were Apple, I would just make a version of an iPhone hardware-enabled to have alternative stores, and I would sell it for a surplus of $1000. This way both sides can have their cake, and the market can decide.