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It's pretty sketchy, yes, but it seems to me that Apple has always done even worse equivalents to those things. When will the EU hammer come down on them?
by FreakyT 9y ago
It's pretty sketchy, yes, but it seems to me that Apple has always done even worse equivalents to those things. When will the EU hammer come down on them?
- kuschku 9y agoMaybe when Apple runs 85% of the market and makes contracts with OEMs that have a noncompete clause? You can only commit the crime of "abusing a dominant market position" if you have a dominant market position.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThere's a few reasons Apple doesn't run afoul of the law as often as Google does: - Anticompetition law applies to monopolies. While Google has several products or services with over 80% market share, Apple has none. Apple's highest share of iOS is in the U.S., where it rolls around 50% with Android, but globally, they barely make an appearance on the board. EU's anticompetition law has no interest in a phone platform with less than 15% of the market. - Apple tends to make a lot of things proprietary, but they're also only used by them in the first place. iOS only runs on iPhones. Google gets into a lot of additional trouble by exerting it's control over it's OEM "partners". For instance, bundling it's Google Apps together as a requirement for OEMs is definitely illegal, whereas Apple putting it's own apps on it's own devices is not.
- coldtea 9y agoThere's no such thing as a 'monopoly on your own product' (e.g. Apple controlling 100% of iOS devices). That's just called "having a product". You're a monopoly if you have a almost complete hold of the entire market, which Apple does not, for any market they are in.
- digi_owl 9y agoApple has already gotten into hot water, but not about iOS. They did get into trouble regarding price fixing of ebooks, for example.