Microsoft faced an antitrust lawsuit (United States v. Microsoft Corp) for embedding IE with Windows, which was seen as an abuse of their position in the OS/PC market to further their own stake in the web browser space.
Apple, in this case, is similarly seen as abusing its position in the US mobile market by not merely bundling Safari with iOS, but going a step further, and preventing any competition to its own browser by banning competing browser engines.
> Microsoft faced an antitrust lawsuit (United States v. Microsoft Corp) for embedding IE with Windows
For a whole range of processes leveraging and protecting the existing Windows monopoly against the threat posed by browsers, Java, and other applications, not just (or even primarily) for “embedding IE with Windows.”
The findings of fact regarding the MS antitrust violations are here availabld [0], bundling IE with Windows is part of bullet E (of A-I) under “Microsoft’s Response to the Browser Threat”.
Is there a direct analogy here? Like ie only on the windows phones?