[georgemcbay]

The overall motivations of the company are irrelevant, what matters for antitrust concerns is marketshare plus using that marketshare as leverage to own other markets.

Apple gets away with things like the 30% content tax on their devices because they don't have the sort of marketshare Microsoft enjoyed. In a world sans-Android and with the iPhone on all the major carriers, that would soon change.

And sorry, I don't believe WebOS or WP7 would factor into the conversation even if Android died (and I say this as a WP7 fan). WebOS in particular is all but dead at this point.

[shinratdr]

> And sorry, I don't believe WebOS or WP7 would factor into the conversation even if Android died

So everyone would use iPhones or dumb phones? I doubt that. There is little reason to think that is exactly what would have ended up happening if Android never had existed.

[georgemcbay]

No, not everyone.

Just like not everyone ran Windows.

But, yes, I do believe that in a world without Android enough people would currently be using iPhones for it to be an antitrust matter, just as Windows was for desktop OSes in the 90s.

[Apple-Guy]

Android also charges 30% content tax: http://support.google.com/androidmarket/developer/bin/answer...