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One major difference - windows PCs don’t come with Steam pre-installed. Android phones do come with the Play Store. Defaults matter, because the vast majority o

One major difference - windows PCs don’t come with Steam pre-installed. Android phones do come with the Play Store. Defaults matter, because the vast majority of people don’t change defaults. That’s why Google pays Apple tens of billions to be the default search engine. Everyone who has steam installed on their PC made a conscious choice to do that. They went out of their way to store.Steampowered.com, downloaded and installed. Anti-trust regulators take a dim view of building market dominance by bundling. This is why Microsoft was forced to stop bundling some components with Windows back in the day.

gruez 3y ago
>Anti-trust regulators take a dim view of building market dominance by bundling. This is why Microsoft was forced to stop bundling some components with Windows back in the day. except... internet explorer is still bundled with windows to this day?
- nindalf 3y ago
  Here’s what you could have googled, but didn’t - United States v. Microsoft Corp. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....) > The U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally maintaining its monopoly position in the personal computer (PC) market, primarily through the legal and technical restrictions it put on the abilities of PC manufacturers (OEMs) and users to uninstall Internet Explorer and use other programs such as Netscape and Java. Also of interest with respect to bundling - Microsoft Corp. v. Commission (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commissio...) > is a case brought by the European Commission of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft for abuse of its dominant position in the market (according to competition law). It started as a complaint from Sun Microsystems over Microsoft's licensing practices in 1993, and eventually resulted in the EU ordering Microsoft to divulge certain information about its server products and release a version of Microsoft Windows without Windows Media Player.

gruez 3y ago

>Anti-trust regulators take a dim view of building market dominance by bundling. This is why Microsoft was forced to stop bundling some components with Windows back in the day. except... internet explorer is still bundled with windows to this day?

nindalf 3y ago
Here’s what you could have googled, but didn’t - United States v. Microsoft Corp. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....) > The U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally maintaining its monopoly position in the personal computer (PC) market, primarily through the legal and technical restrictions it put on the abilities of PC manufacturers (OEMs) and users to uninstall Internet Explorer and use other programs such as Netscape and Java. Also of interest with respect to bundling - Microsoft Corp. v. Commission (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commissio...) > is a case brought by the European Commission of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft for abuse of its dominant position in the market (according to competition law). It started as a complaint from Sun Microsystems over Microsoft's licensing practices in 1993, and eventually resulted in the EU ordering Microsoft to divulge certain information about its server products and release a version of Microsoft Windows without Windows Media Player.