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Windows still has 87% market share on desktop and laptop web browsing statistics. It was higher at the time that trial took place, and cell phone web browsing wasn't as popular back then. iOS still has less than half of the smartphone market.

p.s. Right to Repair laws ought to make it illegal for Apple to prevent users from installing third-party software on the iPhone. This talk of them being some sort of "monopoly" is totally irrelevant.

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Yes, and when Microsoft was found to be abusing their monopoly position, they faced antitrust suit and lost. Epic thinks the same is now true of Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

These arguments feel empty to me. There is only one source of software for the iPhone: Apple. The android ecosystem has no utility to the iPhone user. There is an Apple tax on every piece of software and every digital purchase on the platform. I don’t see where the competition is.

You didn't have to buy an iPhone.

You didn't have to use Windows either. Linux, BSD, etc have been around for quite a while.

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