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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by scarface_74 on Monday March 04, 2024 @08:24AM (#39590153)
Consumers weren’t Microsoft Windows customers for the most part - OEMs were. OEMs were not free to install any other operating system. Well they were. But they still had to pay for a Windows license even on computers shipped without Windows.

And this article is about the EU where iOS is less than 40% and Apple Music is less than 10%

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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by FirmwareBurner on Monday March 04, 2024 @08:29AM (#39590208)
>OEMs were not free to install any other operating system.

All the PCs I bought in 90's Europe came without Windows OS preinstalled. What you're talking about it the deals between Microsoft and the likes of Dell/HP/Compaq, etc, but nobody forced you to buy those brands as there were plenty of other local assembled alternatives without OS in the shops back then.

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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by scarface_74 on Monday March 04, 2024 @08:31AM (#39590245)
You mean like no one forces you to buy iPhones because there are plenty of Android devices?
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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by FirmwareBurner on Monday March 04, 2024 @08:40AM (#39590331)
Androids can't run the SW developed for iOS same how X86 PCs built at home can run the SW developed for X86 PCs sold by Dell/Compaq nor can you sell you iOS SW you developed for Apple HW outside of Apple's SW garden.

Please stop making up arguments that are not in good faith.

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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by JustExAWS on Monday March 04, 2024 @08:59AM (#39590551)
I said that Microsoft’s customers were OEMs and that MS was found to be a monopoly because they forced OEMs to pay for Windows licenses for every computer shipped whether or not the computer was running Windows. This was part of the lawsuit.

The reply was that there were other computers sold in Europe by the non big brands that did not include Windows.

You could not in fact run the “same” Windows software if you were not running Windows

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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by burnerthrow008 on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:33PM (#39598799)
> Androids can't run the SW developed for iOS

Sure they can. You can install free emulators on Android, can't you? Just side-load it, and Bob's your uncle.

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