Re:A critique of Safari's influence on the web
by agust on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:14AM
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The EU Commission and several other competition bodies are currently studying Apple's anticompetitive practices. The reason it has avoided their action until now is probably due to the technicality of the issue and its deep ramifications. Hopefully the numerous recent articles about the matter will help the regulators understand it and act on it.
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Re:A critique of Safari's influence on the web
by stephen_g on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:36AM
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Well, probably also that technically Microsoft had a monopoly in desktop operating systems (apparently 97% of desktop computers in 2000 according to an article I found), whereas Apple’s smartphone market share in Europe is just less than 30%.
Re:A critique of Safari's influence on the web
by pjerem on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:52AM
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It’s more subtle because it depends what you consider to be the market.
Windows was the dominant operating system of the PC platform. But the openness of the PC platform wasn’t a problem. On smartphone, you are bound by the hardware to keep the OS sold with it. So it could make sense to consider the « iPhone devices » market instead of the « smartphone » market (same for Android).