Well people can do something about it. They can invent their own app store and operating system and negotiate with hardware vendors to deliver it. Does that see

Well people can do something about it. They can invent their own app store and operating system and negotiate with hardware vendors to deliver it. Does that seem difficult to do? Yet that's what Google did in the face of iOS. And it's what Apple did in the face of Blackberry/Nokia. It's what Purism is trying to do now. Google's actual infrastructure costs are not low, they're actually so high that many people don't think it's feasible to do it. It's so high that they're reduced to complaining about how difficult it is to do anything other than use Google's existing infrastructure. Maybe that still feels unfair. I'm not totally unsympathetic to that perspective. But it's wrong to characterize Google's costs as trivial and claim that there are no options. Both you and the author imply that Google's 70% marketshare platform is a triviality worth far less than they charge, and that doesn't strike me as entirely fair either.