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Comment by viktorcode | Hacker News Reader

Your "marketshare" definition is bogus. I could claim that Firefox has 100% marketshare of PlayStation consoles.

There's no such market as devices of a single manufacturer.

If you buy a computer from ASUS, you can download whatever browser you want. If you buy a cellphone from a Android-manufacturer, you can download whatever browser you want.

But if you buy an iPhone, you can only download browsers that are using Apples own browser.

Just because smartphones have traditionally been locked down, doesn't mean that it should be like that.

PCs were also pretty locked down the beginning. And Windows have tried a couple of times to move in that direction. But fortunately, we have a relatively open ecosystem when it comes to devices we use for "producing" things on. It's just missing that the devices we "consume" on works similarly.

PCs weren't made "open" by the government regulations. Any company if it wishes so could start selling a locked down Windows machine with no ability to replace the browser. Nobody will call this company "a monopoly" for that fact alone.

...which is equally ridiculous. If Sony is actively preventing Playstation owners from installing other browsers with their control over app distribution, then that too should be considered malicious and just further indicates how necessary sweeping legislation like this is.

That's exactly why markets aren't defined in that way. See judge's notes from Epic v Apple trial.

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