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That's about $50 per user believed to have been affected by the error.
I understand the premise of the fine, but how is this supposed to help the consumers and businesses who now have to foot the $50 bill per seat?
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> It's completely crazy. There's nothing crazy about it. > We've accepted browsers are part of the OS for a long time We've accepted that browsers are necessary, the EU seems to have not accepted an OS natural monopoly can be leveraged into a browser monopoly. Sounds perfectly sane, and a good thing. > what's next fining Apple for not promoting Mozilla or Chrome on iOS? Apple does not have a monopoly marketshare, whi…
they did on iOS (for a while). Safari is bundled with iOS
That's about $50 per user believed to have been affected by the error.
I understand the premise of the fine, but how is this supposed to help the consumers and businesses who now have to foot the $50 bill per seat?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's completely crazy. There's nothing crazy about it. > We've accepted browsers are part of the OS for a long time We've accepted that browsers are necessary, the EU seems to have not accepted an OS natural monopoly can be leveraged into a browser monopoly. Sounds perfectly sane, and a good thing. > what's next fining Apple for not promoting Mozilla or Chrome on iOS? Apple does not have a monopoly marketshare, whi…
they did on iOS (for a while). Safari is bundled with iOS
No. Apple never had a super-majority (or even a majority) of the smartphone marketshare, let alone in the EU where Symbian and BB historically held strong marketshares during iOS's tenure.
iOS's best has been 30~40% in some european country (not even EU-wide). Although it does capture the vast majority of profits, but that's not really relevant to antitrust-type cases.
I believe Samsung currently has a bigger share of the EU market than iOS. There never was a case of monopolistic abuse from apple in the EU, because they never came close to a monopoly.
I wonder what they do with this money actually. Same as is done with tax money?
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The right to continue to do business in the EU? That's what's at stake.
I don't think they can just cut off every Microsoft consultancy, every Windows user and throw them out of the EU. If they did, I'd be heading to Brussels with a pitchfork along with about 100 other people at my company.