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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by Gunax on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:49PM (#38032652)
If even Alphabet cannot get a toehold on Apple devices, then other competitions have no chance.

In this case, I strongly favour opening the IPhone. Not because I care about Google, but because I care about completion at large.

25 years ago we said Microsoft was a monopoly just for including IE. They never stopped you from installing anything else. I don't understand why the same rule doesn't apply to Apple.

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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by nemothekid on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:42PM (#38033072)
The idea of "opening" iOS so that we can welcome a Google Chrome monopoly just doesn't sit right with me.
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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by nuker on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:46PM (#38033761)
This.
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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by abirch on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:59PM (#38033188)
Microsoft was a monopoly because it had 97% of the desktop market. Their anticompetitive behavior is too long to list but include not being able to remove IE, they bundled Windows Media Player, wouldn't make office for competing products until the second coming of Steve Jobs, they tried to make their own version of Java, ...
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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by 8note on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:50PM (#38046966)
This all sounds like the same stuff apple does with ios
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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by carlosjobim on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:15PM (#38106098)
> 25 years ago we said Microsoft was a monopoly just for including IE.

We said Microsoft was abusing their monopoly because they used criminal blackmail against hardware sellers, threatening to cease business with sellers if they tried to sell any computers with competing operating systems or without operating systems.

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