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Selling separately destroys the iPhone brand and business model. Far fewer would pay for a separate OS, iPhones would have to be more expensive if they didn’t b
by valuearb 6y ago
Selling separately destroys the iPhone brand and business model. Far fewer would pay for a separate OS, iPhones would have to be more expensive if they didn’t bundle a services component, customers wouldn’t trust iPhone as much.
There is a simple solution, and it’s not misguided delusional antitrust talk. It’s buying the other type of smartphone that is 85% of unit sales world wide.
- reificator 6y agoTwo choices for something as complex as a smartphone does not make a free market.
- valuearb 6y agoIt’s far more than two choices since their are hundreds of Android manufacturers, many whom add their own software to the stack. It’s more like dozens of differentiated competitors, of which Apple is rate largest but still only a small minority of the market. There aren’t many freer markets. The automobile business was still a free market when Henry Ford refused to paint cars in your choice of color.
- reificator 6y agoAnd how many of those phones don't run Google Play Services? Right now your choices are "Google doesn't spy on me" or "I can sideload apps or use alternative stores".