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This made me realize just how weird the phone business is. Because it's not how "businesses" work at all! It's just how smart phone manufacturers currently work
by neogodless 10y ago
This made me realize just how weird the phone business is. Because it's not how "businesses" work at all! It's just how smart phone manufacturers currently work.
Imagine if Microsoft couldn't publish security updates without going through Dell, HP, AND your ISP, and you start to realize how crazy the situation currently is.
- JetSpiegel 10y agoWell, Google could have just pulled an Apple and don't licence Android for manufacturers that allowed this. Can't tout "bigger install base than Apple" with that, though.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThe actual weird thing is the PC market, which is pretty much the only place where a third-party software manufacturer is not treated as a subordinate supplier by the hardware manufacturer of the device the software runs on. And it's mostly a side effect of the missteps that IBM made in the 1980s because they didn't understand the market dynamics, which is why they aren't in that market, commodity manufacturers are, and Microsoft was the big winner, not any of the hardware players.