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		firecall on Sept 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals > just for having IE as default browser That's not what it was about. The FTC accused MS of Monopoly Abuse. MS gave away IE in a deliberate attempt to destroy Netscape, and they succeeded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

osti on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

So if Apple were Microsoft, they just wouldn't let Netscape in their app store in the first place.

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