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by threeseed
1465 days ago
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I really wish people would stop bringing up Microsoft. They had ~95% market share when they were pulling this IE nonsense. iOS is ~28%. And they didn't get in trouble just for bundling IE. It was the coercion of OEMs to not bundle Netscape. Many of the companies at the time wanted to offer both but weren't allowed. |
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This is a deliberately misleading number.
They own ~50% of US market, they have close to 50% of global mobile revenue, >70% of profit, etc. etc. They are a huge player and abusing their market position - and are big enough to bring regulatory attention in multiple countries.
This is exactly the situation where proper government intervention into markets is a good thing and I've seen multiple proposals to deal with "Apple tax" and walled garden strategy. Hopefully they come sooner rather than later.