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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by sbuk on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:38PM (#37666771)
They absolutely did. The whole antitrust case revolved around Microsoft threatening OEMs to terminate their reseller agreements if they sold the machines with Netscape Navigator pre-installed. It is the literal definition of monopoly abuse!
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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by dnissley on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:43PM (#37666829)
Pardon me for not being more precise -- they never prevented end users from installing Netscape on their machines.
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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by hn_acker on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:19PM (#37667887)
If we assume for the sake of argument that a particular customer would knowingly buy a computer from an OEM who pre-installed Netscape on it, then the OEM is the user of the computer before the end user buys it. Why should Microsoft be allowed to prohibit such a pre-installation? For security, maybe, but that probably wasn't Microsoft's motivation.
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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by throwaway290 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:33PM (#37668595)
By that logic Apple does not prevent end users from rooting the phone and installing anything they like, it just makes it very inconvenient... and less shady than Microsoft's shell execute bug.
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