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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I don't get it... Microsoft is sued by everyone and their Grandma for Anti-Trust issues because they dared to ship Windows with it's own integrated internet browser and java environment... even though everyone was completely free to install whatever browser and java environment they wanted to after they bought it.
Yet, Apple is forcing everyone to only use iTunes with their iPods and to only connect to AT&T with their iPhones, but people are treating them like frickin heroes?
Microsoft may have created the worst internet browser in the history of mankind and then pre-installed it on your operating system, but I have yet to hear of a single patch from Windows Update that physically renders your computer's internal hardware completely unusable just because you installed Firefox or Opera or the Java JRE from Sun.
Perspective, people. It's not just a twenty-seven syllable word.
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I thought about this, but then decided it could easily be dismissed in court as you don't need to purchase an iPhone. You can choose any other carrier as well as any other phone. In that sense, it isn't anti-trust.
I guess there could be a case made for users of an iPhone are getting forced to use certain software, certain carrier, etc. I am not sure if it could be a full on anti-trust case, but it is a different perspective on anti-trust laws.