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I don't understand why you keep talking about Apple's direct competition? Vertical consolidation is a very different, potentially more harmful problem than "a m

by mrkurt 5y ago

I don't understand why you keep talking about Apple's direct competition? Vertical consolidation is a very different, potentially more harmful problem than "a mobile phone monopoly". More competitive phone market is pretty boring. Good ARM CPUs are not boring, there are all kinds of places those would be amazing that Apple isn't going to bother using them. Apple doesn't have to lose, in a healthy market they'll be able to buy good ARM CPUs just like I will. The problem is that Apple's solutions are the only solutions that get to use certain technologies because they don't want other people to compete with them.

zepto 5y ago
> The problem is that Apple's solutions are the only solutions that get to use certain technologies because they don't want other people to compete with them. This just misunderstands what vertical integration is about. Apple’s solutions aren’t general solutions. They are narrow solutions that work in Apple’s ecosystem. Apple hasn’t developed general solutions that other people could use. This is the whole point. It’s why they can move faster than a modular ecosystem can. This has nothing to do with not letting other people use their technologies. They don’t actually have technologies that anyone other than Apple can use.