There were stories about how they used to deliberately tweak the OS to break competitor software.<p>That&#x27;s awful. But I think writing a competing app is a completely proper way to compete.<p>&gt; they really did have a strong monopoly<p>Evidently they did not.<p>To those of us old enough to remember the &quot;unbreakable&quot; IBM monopoly, it&#x27;s hard to worry too much about this stuff.