Arguably other companies would have taken the burden, and it could have been for the better, who knows. We might not see any obvious candidates for that, as Go

Arguably other companies would have taken the burden, and it could have been for the better, who knows. We might not see any obvious candidates for that, as Google was dominant and they had no market access. Imagine a timeline where Palm ruled the phone market, and we’d be here asking rhetoric questions about what it would have been if Palm didn’t do it.