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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
This would be true if Apple made the OS that ran on 90% of the available devices in the market. But they don’t; their OS runs on one device only, theirs.
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It's not about the OS, its about the applications that run on it -- ie using their dominance in the mobile app market to try and make the apps OS-specific.
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
I think furthermore its going to be hard to call any of this antitrust when Apple doesn’t compete in the application space directly. All developers are subject to the same restrictions, there are no favorites being played (not overtly anyways)
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They take a cut of every app sold, plus having the largest volume of apps available is a selling point of the phone as a whole. Further, the anti-trust isn't on the part of the developers its on the part of companies that compete in the mobile-app market space. It may be Adobe that's bringing the complaints against Apple, but they are not the competitors in any anti-trust case. Android and any other companies that can have apps cross-compiled to run on their platforms are.