I found a quicker fix for my dad's poorly performing new laptop. I removed the Norton virus. I did something similar with McAfee for a friend when it decided that the best way to protect her from the dangers of the internet was to disable her networking stack.

I don't have to unlock my computer in order to install anything on it. I just plug in a USB stick of the OS and away I go. I shouldn't have to do anything more complex than that for any of the newer class of computing device.

Serviio.

Apple products are far easier to avoid than Microsoft ones.

Given that the same content is also available on PCs, consoles and Android devices why would the DoJ have any interest in what Apple do.

still rocking windows 8

What does that mean? Using?

Are there any Sony fanboys here? I only see negative comments about them.

And comparing Microsoft or Apple to corporations who have caused the deaths of millions is just ludicrous.

So buy an Android device that doesn't have those restrictions but has the same functionality. It's hard to be anti-competitive when you have several legitimate competitors. Microsoft had no legitimate competition, any pretense that OS9/OSX or Linux were a drop-in replacement for Windows was just laughable.

Read the findings of fact. It's a lot more complex than you imagine.

There was very little alternative on the desktop when Microsoft was convicted. However Apple has a very strong competitor in both Android and Samsung. That's the difference.

Try reading the findings of fact and focus specifically on applications barrier to entry. Moving from iOS to Android is not nearly as difficult as moving from Windows to Linux or OS9 was in 2000.

Microsoft also deliberately, not once but three times, disrupted the development of middleware that would have made the migration easier. Now whether you think that any of the middleware (Netscape, Java and Intel's cross-platform device driver framework) was crap or not is irrelevant. Microsoft did this to prevent competitive threats from arising and to maintain their illegally gained market share.

Apple have tried to disrupt Android but have failed, and they have also not prevented software that allows cross-platform development. It's all in the findings of fact which you clearly haven't read.

And that's an advert for iOS security software, so not exactly objective.

When did they start?

They want to prevent anyone else from starting an app store in competition with theirs.

Or the leap of money in the case of OS X.