[tgv]

MS was fined because it had an enormous market share in personal computing, making it practically a monopoly. Apple is nowhere near that.

[postalrat]

Apple has a sizable share of the mobile market in the USA and EU and what they are doing goes well beyond what MS did in the past.

[photonerd]

They have 31% of the market, not even a third.

They’re not even in the same league as what MS was doing. At the time of the EU vs MS suit they had a 91% market share, and had only recently come down from a fraction over 95%

THAT is why the EU took action. Apple isn’t in a monopoly position in phones at all, they’re not even the dominant OS.

What they are, is the one that makes the most money.

[newaccount74]

You are right that Apple does not have a monopoly on phones. But that does not mean that their behaviour is not anti-competitive.

[photonerd]

Almost all companies behavior is anti-competitive in some way. They rarely (tho occasionally) try to promote competition.

Requiring Play services so much is anti-competitive by Google.

Anti-competitive behavior isn’t, by itself, an issue. At least… it’s only an issue ideologically speaking.

[SllX]

As far as EU jurisdiction goes the only stat that matters is the EU. If Apple had 100% of market share in the US, the EU would still have no governing power.

Based off what I found through a quick search, in Q4 2022 Apple has 29% of smartphone shipment and they have about 38% of mobile OS share. Not tiny, but not dominating the market. Back when Microsoft was being prosecuted, they had >95% of desktop OS share, approaching 99% in some places, and they were accused of leveraging that to muscle out paid-for software vendors that sold directly competing software (both operating systems through exclusivity agreements with OEMs and application software on Windows).

[veave]

They don't even have half the market in the EU. They aren't a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination.