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iPhone App Makers Questioned by U.S. Department of Justice in Apple Antitrust Probe
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Probably not.
I had a friend that was 'right wing', and wasn't happy with the 'approved' apps. I think they have an Android now, and have probably been hacked relentlessly.
(I had a client that was into the whole 'alternative facts' thing on the net. His computer, and company email, were being hacked and pawned repeatedly. He had no idea 'what could be causing it'. I gave him, and management an old Wired article, and he stopped doing that stuff at work, plus his company got tired of paying to flush his system of the nastiness. I heard there was also 'a meeting' *shrug*)
This is the key issue. Apple needs to decide if they want the whole country as customers or only half.
Difference: Microsoft had >90% of sales in the operating system market.
seems like doj resources has its sights on something obscure compared to fighting hacking threats to usa
But that alone might not stop a ideologically based attack from the DOJ. Seriously. They respect no laws, regulations, precedents. All to what end?
But Microsoft was found to block access to API's that increased the speed of IE, and hobbled Navigator. Microsoft also increased their spending on 'lobbying' to 'coerce' politicians to stop the lawsuit. They got their way, eventually. Sad how money wags so much in DeeCee...
The problem was that Microsoft bundled their internet browser with installs of Windows and exerted power they had from their dominance in the OS market to prevent or seriously dissuade OEMs from pre-loading another browser (browsers being a separate market). If an OEM didn't agree to allow IE to be the only browser pre-loaded on their PCs, they wouldn't get the sweet sweet OEM Windows license pricing. Additionally, they could add hooks between their OS and their browser that gave it a competitive advantage over others in performance and pervasiveness (making IE impossible to uninstall for the average PC user of the time).
Given this was an era where computer literacy isn't what it is now - a sizable chunk of the population might not have even thought to see if there were any other browsers. Additionally, the task of downloading and installing a new program over dial up was much slower and daunting to the average person.
It really just boiled down to their using dominance in the OS market to manipulate their standing in the web browser market instead of competing on merit.
Given this was an era where computer literacy isn't what it is now - a sizable chunk of the population might not have even thought to see if there were any other browsers. Additionally, the task of downloading and installing a new program over dial up was much slower and daunting to the average person.
It really just boiled down to their using dominance in the OS market to manipulate their standing in the web browser market instead of competing on merit.
Yep half, 46% vs 48% of the popular vote is pretty close to half and half.
But more importantly, 56.5% vs 42.2% of the electoral vote is also close enough to half and half.
In either case can't imagine Apple wanting to piss off 62+ million potential customers.