The market is small but seems viable given some of the manufacturers still exist. There are also projects running a free OS on Android hardware. I could go a lot deeper but it's probably OT. Nokia might have had a chance with Meego based on the reviews of the N9, but Elop killed it at birth so we'll never know.
True in the US, but not everywhere. In the UK the term is 'fair dealing' but it doesn't include ripping CDs for personal use. The law was changed in 2014 to allow personal use ripping, but the courts overturned it a few months later.
Microsoft created a new ecosystem with Windows but some of their conduct favouring Internet Explorer was held to be a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Apple and Google go further in favouring their own products that, like IE, weren't originally part of the OS. Google at least allow alternatives, but in some cases Apple doesn't even do that. So we come back to how much market influence is needed before the conduct counts as abusive. Europe tends to have a lower threshold than the US. I'd call it pro-consumer rather than anti-business. It's a similar situation with personal data as in the 'spyware in cars' thread, employment law and probably a load of other areas.
Seems very unlikely.
I'm aware of the Microsoft litigation and don't agree with the result. In the EU there was the absurdity of a version of Windows without IE or Media Player. The browser problem solved itself with the introduction of competent third party browsers. I view the EU approach as economic nationalism. I asm dumbfounded that a product which becomes popular because of its walled garden is somehow abusive. This is more about giving free or cheap access to the walled garden to Spotify and Epic who would not have those customers without Apple.
At the risk of going OT:
