Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons | TechCrunch
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A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any

A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any

  • optissima@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    In 1998, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs criticized Microsoft’s monopoly and ‘dirty tactics’ in operating systems to target Apple, which prompted the company ‘to go to the Department of Justice’ in hopes of getting Microsoft ‘to play fair,’” the suit notes, heavily implying hypocrisy on Apple’s part. “But even at that time, Apple did not face the same types of restrictions it imposes on third parties today; Apple users could use their iPod with a Windows computer…

    iPod launched in 2001. Am I missing something?

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      The Microsoft case was filled in 1998, but the actual trial was argued in 2001 and then supplemented throughout until 2004.