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		orangecat on Aug 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account Might be an unpopular opinion but I don’t think they are acting to the level of MSFT in the 90s. It's far worse. Microsoft may have played dirty tricks with bundling, but they never prevented developers from distributing competing software. If Microsoft had the control over Windows that Apple does over iOS, they never would have allowed web browsers (for "security", no doubt) and we might be in a Windows monoculture today.

heavyset_go on Aug 29, 2020 | [–]

> It's far worse. Microsoft may have played dirty tricks with bundling, but they never prevented developers from distributing competing software.

In a way, they did. They made deals with OEMs to only ship PCs with Windows on them, and not, say, BeOS or Linux.

AlexandrB on Aug 29, 2020 | [–]

But Windows had 90%+ of the market. iOS does not.

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