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Can anyone now blast Apple on anti-trust grounds, for banning competing browsers in their store? When Apple want to sabotage universal adoption of certain tech
by shmerl 8y ago
Can anyone now blast Apple on anti-trust grounds, for banning competing browsers in their store?
When Apple want to sabotage universal adoption of certain technology (such as DASH for video streaming), they can avoid implementing needed components on the client side in their engine, forcing everyone who wants to target iOS (a sizable chunk of the Web market) to support their own technology instead of only something else.
So control over the browser engines in the store gives them anti-competitive control which extends way beyond it. It's surprising no one challenged that garbage until now.
- mr_toad 8y agoOn the one hand I dislike that Safari has a monopoly in iOS, but I fear the alternative is a de-facto monopoly for Chrome, which could be even worse.
- milkytron 8y agoWhat happened to Firefox?
- rubidium 8y agoIt looses everywhere it competes with Chrome... much as I hate to say it.
- shmerl 8y agoIt doesn't matter if it can't be even released there. That's the whole point. Apple don't compete on merit, they use monopolistic tactics to ban competition.
- millstone 8y agoWhen Google puts Chrome banners on google.com, and in gmail popups, is that "competing on merit?" How can I run some ads on google.com?
- shmerl 8y agoFirefox could be released for iOS if not for this ban.
- millstone 8y agoAnd so would Chrome which would, realistically, be far more popular.
- chj 8y agoThis is indeed the elephant in the room. All app developers, except spotify, are too terrified to directly confront with Apple. That's the chilling effect of a true monopoly.
- millstone 8y agoYeah Apple can do that. Thank goodness. Safari lags on web standards. It's ahead on anti-tracking, Reader Mode, etc. Which focus benefits the user more?
- shmerl 8y agoThey do that. However it shouldn't be legal in any sane legal climate, where competition law is not a fake facade. And who would defend the monopoly except for shills?
- tekknik 8y agoKinda like Google and their widevine DRM only being available on Chrome and first party apps. If you want to watch Google Play purchases you MUST use their clients. Is this monopolistic or are we still gonna ignore all the crap Google does?