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People have a habit of looking through the wrong end of a telescope when it comes to anti-trust stuff. From a consumer perspective, as someone who already has a
by redwall_hp 6y ago
People have a habit of looking through the wrong end of a telescope when it comes to anti-trust stuff. From a consumer perspective, as someone who already has a phone in-hand and a bunch of vendor lock-in going on, does Apple not have unilateral control over the software market that user has access to?
Saying "Android exists" is kind of like saying "you don't have to deal with Standard Oil or the railroads...you can just use coal instead and haul it by ship." Fat lot of good that does you when you have a bunch of oil-burning machinery you've invested in.
- jariel 6y agoThe mobile market is de-facto an oligarchy. Android and iOS control everything really. It would be like only having two national airlines. Sure, there are others, but they only do little routes here and there and if you want to go NYC/LA non-stop among many other routes, you have 'no choice'. It's a new and developing market, and generally it would be nice to let things play out, but, there probably has to be anti-trust action of some kind. In particular, it's not quite right to think of them as 'devices' or 'os's' - it's about 'all the other stuff' i.e. mapping, search etc..