Apple’s long, bitter App Store antitrust war

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How it started

The twelvemonth was 1998, and reigning idiosyncratic machine elephantine Microsoft was connected proceedings for violating antitrust laws, including by targeting its smaller rival Apple. Apple occupied lone a fraction of the PC market, portion Microsoft held northbound of 80 percent. But its cross-platform QuickTime multimedia subordinate threatened Microsoft's ain offerings, and a tribunal determined that Microsoft …

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