I hear you, but that's the difference between something not seeming right to a non-legal mind, and something that violates a law. Only the latter gets you in trouble. And since no one in the industry, least of all Amazon who would have all the motive in the world, is making any noises about Apple's actions being illegal tells me there is nothing there.
Oh yea, totally. That's why I wasn't saying it was illegal. Just seems off -- which does not mean they are doing anything wrong. I think we are on the same page.
Well MS never had an illegal monopoly either, but I'm sure plenty of people here were gung ho about all of that. Sorry, but Apple is behaving in an anti-competitive nature.
Microsoft DID have an illegal monopoly. They did some very bad and anticompetitive things to achieve monopoly status -- thus making it an illegal monopoly.