The actions that made Microsoft the target of antitrust authorities internationally didn't compare nwith some of the practices of dominant technology players today, said General Counsel Brad nSmith. "One can only imagine the volcanic uproar if we had" run an app store in which the ncompany "alone would control" the software accepted for distribution and from which napplications that competed with offerings by the company had been excluded, he said at an nantitrust symposium at Stanford Law School. Smith didn't name names, but his comments fit nwith a common view of Apple's iTunes App Store. The New York Post this month reported the nJustice Department and the FTC had been discussing which agency would look into Apple's nrequirement that developers of applications for its devices use its development ntools. Smith declined to discuss any other conduct by Apple or Google that might support his nbroader statement that there's "quite a contrast" between practices in the news now and the nway Microsoft was accused by Justice and the European Commission of exploiting the power nof its Windows monopoly. Apple didn't respond to a request for comment.
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