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It was more than that. Microsoft was giving IE special APIs that it wasn't letting others have, and was also deeply integrating IE into the broader OS (eg, embedding it into the file explorer)

Which is also what Apple is doing but then going even further and just outright banning other browser engines.

>>kllrno+(OP)
Eh, we could still write a browser that interfaced with those special APIs, albeit in a hidden fashion.

And even without them, we could write a browser and distribute to people so they could install it.

That cannot be said about iOS.