> If they put this sort of effort into inquiring how they mucked up their own companies then they might make some actual progress.
Here's the thing though, the point of an anti-trust investigation is that the market dominance might, possibly, be due to something other than people liking it.
I don't have a problem with the specific things Apple's getting criticised for in the Epic cases[0], but it's really unavoidably obvious that a lot of people do.
[0] And that's not as a fanboi: I do have a problem plenty of other things they do and fail to do, just not these specific things. E.g. Safari as the only browser engine was obviously going to bite them, even though the browser wars are much less important today than in the 90s.
Are you suggesting that Apple aren't the people in charge of iPhones? You might like to pass that on to the EU, they're worried about iPhones and they appear to have accidentally decided that probing Apple will help!
I'm sure the EU is trying to regulate how China manufactures iPhones too, if that is some sort of consolation prize to you. And my response is the same - there is a reason it is happening in China. The reason is EU regulations.
> ...market dominance might, possibly, be due to something other than people liking it.
Case in point; the market dominanace of Apple in Europe is primarily because EU regulators are technophobic. North America can manage to design a smartphone. Asia can design smartphones in plural. Europe can manage the Nokia 1100 which is not nothing. Well done Europe. But not enough to compete with serious players.
They can however design an instruction set integral to the development of the iPhone and garner Apple's continued investment in their success as a result.
And on the next line, "Assembled in China".
> If they put this sort of effort into inquiring how they mucked up their own companies then they might make some actual progress.
Here's the thing though, the point of an anti-trust investigation is that the market dominance might, possibly, be due to something other than people liking it.
I don't have a problem with the specific things Apple's getting criticised for in the Epic cases[0], but it's really unavoidably obvious that a lot of people do.
[0] And that's not as a fanboi: I do have a problem plenty of other things they do and fail to do, just not these specific things. E.g. Safari as the only browser engine was obviously going to bite them, even though the browser wars are much less important today than in the 90s.