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> There is plenty of competition. If you don't want what Apple sells at the price it sells it at, you buy an Android or Windows device - like most of the world
by com2kid 8y ago
> There is plenty of competition. If you don't want what Apple sells at the price it sells it at, you buy an Android or Windows device - like most of the world does.
Google just got hit with a massive fine in the EU for how they forced companies making Google Certified Android devices to only make Google Certified devices.
They got punished for being more open than Apple, but not open enough.
There is this weird legal area where if your ecosystem is completely closed, and you are completely vertically integrated, you can do whatever you want, but as soon as you open up a little bit, you have to open up a lot or get in legal trouble.
- scarface74 8y agoGoogle forcing other manufacturers not to make other products is nowhere on the scale of “open”. That would be like Apple telling Foxconn, ARM, TSMC, TomTon etc that they can’t do business with any other company