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The idea a company "anti-competitively restrains the web" by "not adding some features some developers want fast enough" is just so high-school drama hyperbolic

• rektide 4y ago
  > The idea a company "anti-competitively restrains the web" by "not adding some features some developers want fast enough" is just so high-school drama hyperbolic it's hard to take you seriously. What about "anti competitively restrains the web by preventing any other browsers from running"? Like, holy shit- do we remember what Microsoft got in trouble for?[1][2] For making IE the default browser? For including a browser at all? Windows had like >90% market share on desktops, iOS doesn't have >30%, but if 30% of the computers run Apple-Web- and can't run the real web at all, that's about as blatantly anti-competitive, is as crude & crippling a blow as could be imagined. Other browsers had been possible vs IE- Apple won't even allow the possibility. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor.... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu