Because there are a dozen or more important issues that regularly make the headlines here around smartphones (security, performance, longevity, privacy, recepti

Because there are a dozen or more important issues that regularly make the headlines here around smartphones (security, performance, longevity, privacy, reception, size, repairability, development, etc.) and there's only 2 remaining major smartphone platforms. (Even if you count each Android manufacturer separately, i.e., you stop caring about anything related to software, there's still not enough.) The response to one company doing something undesirable cannot be "just switch to the other one", because that only works once, and then you still have 10 other factors to deal with. Didn't someone here say that in the EU, they only consider a market to have competition if there are at least 4 major competitors? To make matters worse, not only are the two players colluding with each other, in many cases, but they're lobbying the very governments who set the rules by which they're allowed to play. I don't see how one can say that we don't need consumer groups' lobbyists, given how many corporate lobbyists there are. People used to joke about how Apple's one-button mouse was insufficient. Today I've got only one bit of control over which smartphone platform I wish to use and support, and there's way more than one manner in which each of these is sub-optimal for my needs, or society's.