claiming the tech giant conspired with distributors of gadgets such as the iPad to fix prices

Doesn't Apple get to set the price of the iPad ?

it's impressive Windows isn't slower considering how much shit it runs

It used to be impressive in the days of nLite (Win2K, XP) when you could really remove the bloat and keep a functional OS.

It's not impressive anymore because the "shit" as you call it is part of the system. An OS with non-removable shit is a shitty OS, and your efforts to sugarcoat it is emetic.

Try to create a pipeline to get gas from Russia. Or reduce your copyright timeout to a sensible duration.

See what China does about it. See what the US does about it.

See the difference ?

foreign intellectual property claims haven't been a show-stopper for China

It has been registered in China too: https://patents.google.com/pat...

What makes you think he didn't read "the" article, when its two articles really ?

Furthermore, PCmag states: There's clearly a lot of choice on the antivirus market and most of the options offer good protection, but Microsoft is now setting a very high bar. It beats most of the competition and is completely free for Windows 10 users. while his criticism is that the competition offer free versions that are just as good.

It seems that it's you who need to read the articles.