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Apple and Google are excellent examples of how the market is closed. They can lose billions of dollars and still turn a profit. They can enter any market they w
by Joeri 15y ago
Apple and Google are excellent examples of how the market is closed. They can lose billions of dollars and still turn a profit. They can enter any market they want, even completely closed ones.
If it's dreamland, why are there small desktop linux competitors? You confuse engineering effort with business effort. You can't launch a smartphone OS business, but you can launch a desktop OS business. The only reasons that this is the case are patents.
- Steko 15y ago"why are there small desktop linux competitors?" How are they different from the Android forks showing up around the world? How do they make money? How much would they make if Google gave away the same services for free? If milk (read: Smartphone OS) was free it's seems pretty clear that you and I would not want to enter the milk selling business. Caveat: unless we were able to deliver a superior quality milk that people would pay for and had some assurance (read: patents) that our innovation(s) would not be immediately copied and given away by the free milkers (read: Google/KIRF pirates).