All this does is show how antitrust (and the fear of antitrust legislation, which has no objective criteria for prosecution) cripples a company's ability to ful

All this does is show how antitrust (and the fear of antitrust legislation, which has no objective criteria for prosecution) cripples a company's ability to fully compete. Instead, the (market-wise) leader was forced to prop up it's competitor by virtue of the fact that they were unable to compete. Yes, Apple makes good products now and can compete on it's own terms, but it floundering when it accepted money from Microsoft. This isn't a good example of how to compete with your competitors at all, unless by compete, you mean "get money from them and constantly poke sticks at them, while they have no real recourse for fear of getting prosecuted."