Re: Safari and Internet Explorer
"How does Apple get away with restricting competitive web browsers on the iOS platform?"
Market share. Over recent years, it's been other countries and/or the EU that has been chipping away at big IT companies bending of rules, enforcing of onerous contract terms, snaffling of personal data etc. Those actions outside of the US trickle back to the US, helping the US consumers too, over time. But in Apples case, they are not the biggest platform in much of the rest of the world and so are less of an issue. People can and do choose other non-Apple platforms in places other than the USA and so Apple are not even close to a monopoly there while in the US, they getting there.
iOS is 60% in US, 51% UK, 30% EU and 10% Asia.
(The 51% UK market share surprised me. I'd not realised they'd grown so much here! Must be all the free iPads getting handed out in schools and universities.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
