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Consumers weren’t Microsoft Windows customers for the most part - OEMs were. OEMs were not free to install any other operating system. Well they were. But th
by scarface_74 3y ago
Consumers weren’t Microsoft Windows customers for the most part - OEMs were. OEMs were not free to install any other operating system. Well they were. But they still had to pay for a Windows license even on computers shipped without Windows.
And this article is about the EU where iOS is less than 40% and Apple Music is less than 10%
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>OEMs were not free to install any other operating system. All the PCs I bought in 90's Europe came without Windows OS preinstalled. What you're talking about it the deals between Microsoft and the likes of Dell/HP/Compaq, etc, but nobody forced you to buy those brands as there were plenty of other local assembled alternatives without OS in the shops back then.
- scarface_74 3y agoYou mean like no one forces you to buy iPhones because there are plenty of Android devices?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoAndroids can't run the SW developed for iOS same how X86 PCs built at home can run the SW developed for X86 PCs sold by Dell/Compaq nor can you sell you iOS SW you developed for Apple HW outside of Apple's SW garden. Please stop making up arguments that are not in good faith.
- JustExAWS 3y agoI said that Microsoft’s customers were OEMs and that MS was found to be a monopoly because they forced OEMs to pay for Windows licenses for every computer shipped whether or not the computer was running Windows. This was part of the lawsuit. The reply was that there were other computers sold in Europe by the non big brands that did not include Windows. You could not in fact run the “same” Windows software if you were not running Windows
- burnerthrow008 3y ago> Androids can't run the SW developed for iOS Sure they can. You can install free emulators on Android, can't you? Just side-load it, and Bob's your uncle.