Your pointless sarcasm is missing the core of the post: IE was dethroned when Firefox and Chrome came along (a hugely superior browsers), not when EU forced MS to provide a choice.
Apple has learned from this it seems - you're banned from running any other browser engine on their platforms so this can't happen again on iOS.
Apple has learned from this it seems - you're banned from running any other browser engine on their platforms so this can't happen again on iOS.