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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by brandensilva on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:23PM (#38609449)
Just a slight clarification. The first Apple iPhone did not have an app store.
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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by meepmorp on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:58AM (#38610049)
I think what they meant could be rephrased as, "for as long as there's been an App Store, it's been part of the OS. "
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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by kohlerm on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:46AM (#38610368)
What does thad mean "part of the OS"? It is not built into the kernel, and is therefore no part of the OS. I do not see why the same would not apply to Apple. But maybe the US legal system is just totally broken ...
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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by meepmorp on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:54AM (#38611520)
There's plenty of parts of an OS that aren't the kernel.
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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by oarsinsync on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:09AM (#38610125)
Which I believe is also false. The jailbroken appstores predate the apple appstore.
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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:29AM (#38611326)
You are playing semantics - "He is not a slave, he is an endantured servant, nothing wrong here"
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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by meepmorp on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:56AM (#38611548)
I'm rephrasing another person's statement to clarify what (I believe) they meant.

Separately, that's kind of a gross choice of comparisons.

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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by godzillabrennus on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:05AM (#38610102)
It was added to the original iPhone with iPhone OS 2.
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