[wongarsu]

> done by apple, with access to their internal documentation

I'm pretty sure there was some antitrust investigation over Microsoft doing the same thing: giving their own software an unfair advantage on their operating system due to the insights the Office team could gain from the kernel team.

Microsoft made a convincing argument that the relevant teams never talked to each other, and the Office developers just reverse-engineered undocumented Windows APIs, the same any other developer would have had to.

[tick_tock_tick]

Yes but Apple also sells the hardware so that makes it legal (for some reason I still don't understand).

[LtWorf]

I remember there was a comic strip that apple and google get away with stuff because they don't have an S in the name, like micro$oft.

[Melatonic]

Google also pays Apple and ungodly amount to make Google the default search engine - who knows what they have going on behind the scenes.