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If an Iphone user wants to use an Android app, they can just buy a second phone? Great solution. Android apps and Iphone simply aren't substitutable goods, so
by anoncake 8y ago
If an Iphone user wants to use an Android app, they can just buy a second phone? Great solution.
Android apps and Iphone simply aren't substitutable goods, so they are different markets.
- scarface74 8y agoNo I’m saying that if people don’t like the iPhone, they can go buy an Android in 18-24 months. The usual amount of time that people buy new phones. But people who care about “freedom” and “openness” and not being in Apple’s “walled garden” can easily by an Android. But how aren’t the two substitutable?
- anoncake 8y agoYou cannot run Android apps on an Iphone. It's shocking that I have to explain that to you.
- lostmsu 8y agoI actually like the definition through "substitutable". Is it official in any way? Because if it is not, it should be.
- anoncake 8y agoIt looks like it is, at least in the EU.[1] Substitutability also seems to play a role in the US, but I haven't read that article.[2] [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM%3Al26073 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM... [2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1072648 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1072648