In this case I think they could be sued or investigated the same way Microsoft was regarding their unfair business practices in licensing.
No, they can't, because the predicate for the Microsoft enforcement action was their monopoly position in the desktop market, and the cause of action was their attempt to use that monopoly to create new monopolies.
Apple has nothing close to a monopoly on smart phones (they are crushed by RIM).
I'm also confused by the thesis of this blog post, which seems to be that there was a bait-and-switch pulled on the Apple dev community writ large. The vast, overwhelming majority of iPhone apps are written in ObjC, and Ruby is no more a second-class citizen on OSX today as it was last year.
No, they can't, because the predicate for the Microsoft enforcement action was their monopoly position in the desktop market, and the cause of action was their attempt to use that monopoly to create new monopolies.
Apple has nothing close to a monopoly on smart phones (they are crushed by RIM).
I'm also confused by the thesis of this blog post, which seems to be that there was a bait-and-switch pulled on the Apple dev community writ large. The vast, overwhelming majority of iPhone apps are written in ObjC, and Ruby is no more a second-class citizen on OSX today as it was last year.