Out of all the things that the justice system was throwing at MS, bundling IE was the least of them and absolutely nothing changed about browser bundling in the US. No there was never a browser choice mandate.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/windo...
> While there were early signs that the browser ballot screen was influencing browser usage in the EU, with Mozilla attributing some European Firefox growth to the selection page, long-term trends strongly suggest that it was next to useless. In spite of equally prominent placement on the selection screen, Opera's share even within Europe appears to have declined over the last five years. So too have Firefox and Internet Explorer. Chrome, however, has experienced significant growth.
Thats only true outside of the US though. iOS is >60% in the USA.
Apple is not a monopoly unless you’re just looking at mobile profits, which historically is not how a monopoly is defined (they’re not even a monopoly in the luxury smartphone market). Android is actually much closer to being a monopoly and does all sorts of deals to maintain their monopolies on search, browsers, and Android which would warrant investigation. Now maybe a monopoly should be defined as % of total profits in a market? Not sure. It would be breaking new regulatory ground for sure.
Also, from the sounds of it, Apple is going to be forced to allow third party browsers and app stores via EU regulation. It’s less clear exactly how that will work and whether that will be available to customers in other jurisdictions.