How much further will you go? Your goal is to try to keep off the hyperconcentration and dereliction of antitrust for as long as possible within the 2000s cultural landscape. No rape, but you can suggest everything up to penetration.
>>16547600Considering Microsoft did not manufacture their own PC hardware, the grounds for antitrust litigation always seemed dubious to me at best, especially when you compare to what Apple regularly gets away with today
>>16547600Complete dismantling a la Standard Oil and AT&T, then go for Apple next
>>16547606It's not about the hardware; it's about the OS unfairly preferencing that butt of jokes over other browsers. It's a tying issue and it always has been, and Apple's the worst of them all. Epic sued them for that very thing, in fact, and won. They won for a while, but now they're being eaten alive by every government agency and corporation on the planet because they refused to create their own contingency plan.For what it's worth, going harsher also means Apple stays the quirky overpriced Adobe machine and MP3 player maker of San Francisco hooha let's pretend the Chinese slaves don't exist it was, because Jobs wouldn't think he can operate with impunity in a world that strikes down M$. He might, but despite how retarded he got later I don't think he'd pick that fight.
>>16547614This. BeOS might not have died, BlackBerry could still be making those sweet BB10 phones, plus GNU/Linux and the BSDs would be in a much less marginalized position.
>>16547600I don't. Japanese have much laxer antitrust laws than anything the US enforces and they're fine. Big business is good business.
