Comment by kinghajj
4 years ago
If they really tried that, wouldn't the DoJ bring an anti-trust case against them? That's exactly what Microsoft was doing in the 90s, using undocumented internal APIs for their own software that let it run faster than competitors'.
Well, unlike Microsoft in the 90s, Apple doesn't hold a monopoly in the PC space.
The current Oracle API-debacle also doesn't give me much hope that this would hold up in court. It's their hardware and by now they could even argue that Macs aren't general computing devices anymore. After all, what's the difference between the M1 and AMDs SoCs that power XBox and Playstation?
(I should be careful - I can always hear Apple's lawyers taking notes;)
trust == Monopoly?
Apple is doing exactly that with the NFC chip in their iphones.