You're comparing Microsoft's behavior now, after they've been smacked down in 1994 to how they operate now. MS had a long track record of breaking applications

You're comparing Microsoft's behavior now, after they've been smacked down in 1994 to how they operate now. MS had a long track record of breaking applications that competed with their offerings. If they hadn't been forced into the consent decree, they'd be 1)in a much stronger position than now, 2)behaving much worse. <When Microsoft chose to neglect the web after IE6, it didn't take that long for competition to work around it. When Apple chose to neglect Safari in exactly the same way (and probably for the same reasons as Microsoft did with IE6), that was it. There was no workaround, nor any way for anyone to compete with a better browser.> IE6 was released in 2001, after the consent decree. So the reason other browsers were able to compete was because MS couldn't kneecap them. <Apple is at around 60% market share in the US. The difference between 60% and 90% is a minor difference in scale.> 30% is a huge difference. <They can charge their competitors a 30% cut of revenue, while obviously ignoring it in their internal accounting for their own competing businesses.> What does MS charge game owners on Xbox? Sounds like the exact same thing. Xbox dominates the US console market [1] far more than iPhone does. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/console/north-america https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/console/north-ame...