Interestingly Chevy is not the market, is a player on the market. When it comes to MS, they are almost in a position to own the OS market. At around 90% or whatever is the Windows market share of all OSes, whatever MS sends out with the OS becomes law, partly because of the sheep mentality of most users which are by far and large not computer savvy.
So it's a unique position. A small part of me is annoyed that all the other big players in other IT markets ran to support above-the-state authorities (EU) to enforce a point of view (whatever that point was). I'll be curious if it'll cut both ways. It's not a perfect example 'cause it's more difficult to put your finger on the problem, but will they go after Google to loosen their grasp on the ad market?
In my eyes MS lost from a different angle. Why didn't they make IE the best browser ever, consistently? They can't? MS could've bought every interesting IT start-up and put them together to work on this. But no, 'cause it's a different mentality with their inhouse software. They still think their stuff is the best just by saying so. They don't build software to be the best in a competition, they build it to be the only player, and to facilitate future practices to remain the only one. If IE was better than Firefox and Chrome and Opera and Safari would you imagine the public uproar when somebody, anybody would try to remove it from being front and center in the public's eyes? So while I don't really like the solution, I can't say they don't deserve it. There's no way they are going to be allowed to cling on the browser market share by alternative means, while failing to be innovative. And when they are innovative they're late.
