[stanleydrew]

Wouldn't completely preventing an alternative browser from being installed qualify as an effort to suppress competing browsers by software measures?

And if giving the users a choice is not such a big penalty, why does Apple care so much about explicitly NOT giving users a choice?

[jacquesm]

1) yes

2) because they're jerks too.

They're just smaller jerks. When you're a de-facto monopoly the rules change, drastically in some cases.

[stanleydrew]

Very true. My only real point is that we should be allowed to demand that both companies not be jerks, and I think we let ourselves down by not expecting it.