> Yet and still console makers have been doing just this for 30 years. It is well accepted in anti-competition law, that the size of the market and market shar

> Yet and still console makers have been doing just this for 30 years. It is well accepted in anti-competition law, that the size of the market and market share matters greatly in determining whether certain behavior is illegal. The larger the market share that a company has, and the larger the market, the more likely the anti-competitive behavior is to be illegal. So, in the case of consoles, consoles have a smaller market and market share than Apple does. Apple is now a 2 trillion dollar company, and has about 50% of the phone market share, in the US, as of last month. They have significantly more control over a significantly larger market than consoles. Thus their behavior is much worse and much more likely to be illegal than that of consoles. > Which is more likely, companies have been breaking the law for years or HNs understanding of the law is flawed? Whats more likely is that you have not read any actual court cases or judicial decisions on the matter, to be frank. The stuff that I states is pretty well accepted among the experts.