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How does preventing competition in a specific application category lead to Apple preventing Google from "forcing" iOS users to use Chrome? Not sure I follow you

How does preventing competition in a specific application category lead to Apple preventing Google from "forcing" iOS users to use Chrome? Not sure I follow your argument here or how allowing browsers would somehow make it possible for Google to automatically install Chrome for iOS users. Imagine if Google suddenly made their Chrome browser behave differently on Google websites compared to others, like 0.5 the performance for no reason. This could be seen as a strategy to increase engagement on Google properties, but I'm fairly sure most of us would see it as an attempt on monopolizing the web in Google's favor. Why is it different for Apple and browsers? They are intentionally making it impossible to create competitors to their own browser, for no technological reason besides "we don't want that".

eecc 6y ago
I guess you weren’t there when Flash was the thing.
jimktrains2 6y ago
> Imagine if Google suddenly made their Chrome browser behave differently on Google websites compared to others, like 0.5 the performance for no reason. I don't have to imagine. https://tech.co/news/google-slowed-youtube-firefox-edge-2019-04 https://tech.co/news/google-slowed-youtube-firefox-edge-2019...
- yepthatsreality 6y ago
  Not to mention the 2010’s where Google only allowed products (such as hangouts) to run on Chrome.
eecc 6y ago
They are intentionally protecting their ecosystem from the thread of an incumbent strangling their growth and marginalizing their strategy. From a market dominant position it would be Antitrust material. Not in this case: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-share-held-by-mobile-operating-systems-since-2009/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...
- airstrike 6y ago
  Now find the same chart for the US only
  - eecc 6y ago
    Why? I'm European, what's so special about US market? (rhetorical question, I know)
- heavyset_go 6y ago
  iOS has more than 60% of the US market.

eecc 6y ago

I guess you weren’t there when Flash was the thing.

jimktrains2 6y ago

> Imagine if Google suddenly made their Chrome browser behave differently on Google websites compared to others, like 0.5 the performance for no reason. I don't have to imagine. https://tech.co/news/google-slowed-youtube-firefox-edge-2019-04 https://tech.co/news/google-slowed-youtube-firefox-edge-2019...

yepthatsreality 6y ago
Not to mention the 2010’s where Google only allowed products (such as hangouts) to run on Chrome.

eecc 6y ago

They are intentionally protecting their ecosystem from the thread of an incumbent strangling their growth and marginalizing their strategy. From a market dominant position it would be Antitrust material. Not in this case: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-share-held-by-mobile-operating-systems-since-2009/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...

airstrike 6y ago
Now find the same chart for the US only
- eecc 6y ago
  Why? I'm European, what's so special about US market? (rhetorical question, I know)
heavyset_go 6y ago
iOS has more than 60% of the US market.