U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by weberer on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:10PM (#39780475)

That's still the case. Its still almost impossible to buy a Linux laptop from one of the big vendors. Even the rare models that they do sell, like the Dell XPS Developer edition, are hidden so deep in their website that they're almost impossible to find unless you're sure it exists.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by kergonath on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:22PM (#39780670)

The issue was not the lack of computers with alternative OSes. It was Microsoft using its dominant status in the market to enforce it.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by doublepg23 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:22PM (#39780659)

Have you looked recently? It's pretty easy to get models from Dell and Lenovo.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by acdha on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:24PM (#39782433)

That’s Dell’s management problems. What I was referring to was the policy Microsoft had in the 90s of, say, telling Dell that they could license Windows for the XPS line at, say, $10/unit if it was on every device sold or list price if they offered a different OS. That was very effective at making it cost more not to use Windows and did exactly what they intended.

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