Apple's default web browser is Safari on iOS and no one ever sued Apple over it.
At some point, you have to just recognize that the world is different today. The general market has accepted walled garden OSes with anti-competitive behavior towards common applications.
IIRC, all web browsers on iOS are using the Safari rendering engine though.
So its still Safari underneath it all. Much like how Internet Explorer / Edge on Windows is really just a Chrome renderer / frontend these days.
EDIT: And since Google is in charge of the Chrome renderer, Microsoft absolutely has less control over internet-APIs / Javascript APIs / CSS details than say... Apple or Google does. Which is the "monopoly" bit that we're really worried about.
When you consider which company "controls the web", its Google or Apple. Microsoft really doesn't have much control of it.
With the new Edge they're giving themselves a boost. They probably won't catch up to Chrome so easily but will have more to say about the underlying engine in a few years time.
Brave is your browser UI. The rendering engine underneath is Safari, as it is with all browsers on iPhone/iPad. The version of Safari is slightly hobbled from the main one, though far less so than it used to be when Apple kept all browsers using a severely hobbled rendering engine making them much slower than Safari proper.
> Apple's default web browser is Safari on iOS and no one ever sued Apple over it.
Apple doesn't have that kind of market share to warrant it. Tangentially, Apple products are aspirational, so they never won't have it, that would lose the appeal. Microsoft, on the other hand, pushes their products every way imaginable, and many of their users use them because they have to.
That's a weak argument. Apple is about 50% of the smartphone market in the US alone.
If you're looking for reasoning/justification behind why Apple got away with something like this, blame the government agencies for not doing their jobs.
IMO, it's slightly unfair that Microsoft got hit with that lawsuit back in the day. They 100% deserved it, but it put them at a disadvantage some years later against all of the other monopolists in the tech industry who were not being scrutinized for doing the exact same (and worse) things.
At some point, you have to just recognize that the world is different today. The general market has accepted walled garden OSes with anti-competitive behavior towards common applications.