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Not sure about Chrome and Android, but iOS global market share is still very low (15%). In my country it is higher (about a third of the market) but nowhere nea
by docdeek 6y ago
Not sure about Chrome and Android, but iOS global market share is still very low (15%). In my country it is higher (about a third of the market) but nowhere near the market share of Windows in the 1990s. IANAL but this could be part of it.
- fakedang 6y agoiOS on phone is 50%+ market share in the US. I thought the US antitrust laws cared primarily about US consumers, or am I mistaken? Still doesn't explain why Edge is bundled with Windows and why I can't uninstall it from my PC without going to the system files.
- freddie_mercury 6y agoI'm not sure how you think it works. Do you think there's some kind of Supreme Court precedent making it illegal for OS vendors to bundle software? Microsoft didn't lose the antitrust case. It was overturned on appeal, remanded to a lower court to try again, and then the government settled out of court. From the Wikipedia description of the settlement: "the DOJ did not require Microsoft to change any of its code nor prevent Microsoft from tying other software with Windows in the future". What's more "Microsoft’s obligations under the settlement, as originally drafted, expired on November 12, 2007." Given all of that why wouldn't Edge be bundled?
- fakedang 6y agoAh thanks, that explains a lot. I did actually think that case set the precedent that way, since MSFT was totally defanged by then upstarts over the next decade.
- Dma54rhs 6y agoAnti trust brought by US was about protecting American consumers, so world has a little to do with it. Apple with his pricing alone could always keep 50% of the world out, thankfully it doesn't work like that.