Thread: Apple might be facing an EU antitrust probe
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Old 07-06-2010, 05:11 AM   #64
murraypaul
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian View Post
"Significant market share" is sufficient, and we're agreed the iphone has that, yes? Also, Android devices certainly are subject to the same scrutiny, but there is no single vendor with a lock-in policy the way Apple has. The various Android devices are an open platform, more or less, you don't need anybody's blessing to write software for it.
It will be interesting to see how this goes.
Hard to see how they can apply this to Apple, but not to Nintendo with the DS, or Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony with the Wii/360/PS3, all of which only run applications/games blessed by the manufacturer.
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