What? When is someone going to sue Apple? Why would anyone even create a browser on iOS with all the restrictions?
Microsoft's legal troubles about bundling IE were possible because MS was ruled to have a monopoly position in desktop PCs.
Apple has around 14% of the smartphone market, by no means a monopoly. Their share gets even smaller when you look at the total cellphone market.
To the best of my knowledge, there isn't anything illegal about using product A to promote product B, or having a restricted platform.
You need some other trigger, such as having a dominant market position, or collusion between vendors, etc..
For what? Not writing an API so that their software that runs on 15% of phones works the way you want it to? Good luck.
> Why would anyone even create a browser on iOS with all the restrictions?
The same reason anyone creates a browser for any platform. Because people use it.
I wouldn't use a browser that was crippled like most people... Actually, I'd move to a different platform.
I have no idea. I don't create browsers for that and many other reasons. Any browser on iOS is still using Safari webkit underneath anyway so there isn't much point.
That hasn't been the case for Google...
> I have no idea. I don't create browsers for that and many other reasons. Any browser on iOS is still using Safari webkit underneath anyway so there isn't much point.
That is another ridiculous restriction...
On what platform? Google in web search is a monopoly, Google or Apple in Smartphones are not. That matters for most of these things.