You don't need to control the entire industry to cause anti-competitive damage. You just need to have enough leverage that your influence can't be ignored.
Examples of Apple doing that is banning competing browsers on iOS and then pushing W3C and developers in the direction they want due to "you can't ignore us". There was a whole list of bad examples. Touch events, fighting against SPIR-V in WebGPU, fighting against adoption of Media Source Extensions (to benefit their video solutions) and etc. and etc.
They very clearly cause a ton of damage to the market by slowing down and sabotaging the progress of interoperable technology to harm competition.
Apple is the only competitor to Google's 65% (direct) plus reskinned Chromium dominance of the browser market.
Meanwhile, I'm happy with the direction they push W3C and developers. Without them, Google would just push the web to whatever they want (more than they already do).
That doesn't excuse all the garbage Apple doing for the sake of their lock-in. They totally should have been blasted by anti-trust years ago for banning competing browsers on iOS. And many other things.
Seems like EU finally started getting the point before US regulators did.
Apple doesn't prevent competing browsers. Just different engines.
And just because they don't rush to incorporate every web feature doesn't make them anti-competitive. Especially when most of the time they are right to do because either (a) they impact security or battery life or (b) they are non-standard.
Case in point SPIR-V which unless I am mistaken is exclusively controlled by Khronos.
> Apple doesn't prevent competing browsers. Just different engines
And you should know well it's the same thing, since above listed issues are defined by the engine. Whatever label you put on top doesn't change the essence of what the problem is.
Examples of Apple doing that is banning competing browsers on iOS and then pushing W3C and developers in the direction they want due to "you can't ignore us". There was a whole list of bad examples. Touch events, fighting against SPIR-V in WebGPU, fighting against adoption of Media Source Extensions (to benefit their video solutions) and etc. and etc.
They very clearly cause a ton of damage to the market by slowing down and sabotaging the progress of interoperable technology to harm competition.