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I agree that it sucks there is so little competition in the mobile OS space, but I don't think government involvement is enough to explain this situation. Take

• zanny 10y ago
  That is exactly why government involvement is such an issue. Microsoft could throw around insane sums of money with its mobile aspirations - and has - while at the same time most users of it say it was the best of the major offerings, they had no success. That was because Microsoft could have all the money in the world, but couldn't operate a cell network out of thin air that would promote their devices. They also had limited access to hardware - they had to outright buy Nokia to even get minor device manufacturer access, and even then few companies ever offered Windows Phone devices despite Microsoft throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at it. When Microsoft cannot make inroads - a company that outright buys entire business sectors to own competition - its disastrous.