[disgruntledphd2]

There's a big difference between consoles and iPhones.

Firstly, the iPhone is used predominantly as a general purpose computing device, whereas a console is definitely not.

Secondly, pretty much every console has been locked down, whereas it's very new for a GP computing device to be this locked down.

Like, I understand the argument here, but the scale of people using only an iPhone makes it dangerous to give Apple this much power.

Imagine if MS could do this back in the 90s on Windows, would that have been acceptable?

[depressedpanda]

> Imagine if MS could do this back in the 90s on Windows, would that have been acceptable?

It was not acceptable and they were forced to display a browser selection pop-up, on a OS that already freely allowed users to install whatever browser they wished.

Contrast this with Apple's iOS, where they somehow get away with not allowing any other browser engine than Safari's Webkit.

[disgruntledphd2]

> It was not acceptable and they were forced to display a browser selection pop-up, on a OS that already freely allowed users to install whatever browser they wished.

In Europe. I once tried to uninstall IE in 2005, and it was a complete comedy of errors that lead to me re-installing Windows.