> Once upon a time people screamed murder when a platform company started weaving its own interests directly into its platform. For example, Microsoft When you

> Once upon a time people screamed murder when a platform company started weaving its own interests directly into its platform. For example, Microsoft When you say "screamed murder", do you mean that people got huffy about it on the Internet? That's still the case. Exhibit A: your comment. Did you mean "antitrust lawsuits used to be filed about it?" A random sampling of any paragraph in the actual court decision should convince you that the situation is not comparable to today: > Microsoft possesses a dominant, persistent, and increasing share of the world- wide market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems. Every year for the last decade, Microsoft's share of the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems has stood above ninety percent. For the last couple of years the figure has been at least ninety-five percent, and analysts project that the share will climb even higher over the next few years. - U.S. v. Microsoft, Findings of Fact If at some point Apple's share of the phone market, or even of the ARM-based phone market, exceeds 90 percent, over a period of a decade--by all means, let's file a lawsuit about it.