1. ...a variety of competing manufacturers who are either running a single operating system with a single defendant, or are a rounding error in market share, pr

1. ...a variety of competing manufacturers who are either running a single operating system with a single defendant, or are a rounding error in market share, profit, or any other way one cares to slice it. 2. Setting Google as the default, and easily changed, search engine does not equate to giving Google access to your data. 3. How long-term are we talking about? Because since 2008, 14 years so far, most investment seems to have been made into the iOS App Store, with more than $260 billion[0] paid to developers so far. The web is a great target platform, I'm glad we agree! You give up a lot in terms of discoverability and potential promotion, and you have to do some extra work to manage payments and so on, plus you have to overcome the natural distrust for paying a new vendors, but you absolutely do get to keep 100% of whatever you can convince people to pay you, for sure. Or even better, don't charge! That's why the web is... an alternative that isn't losing, let's say. 0. https://www.businessofapps.com/news/apple-paid-out-260-billion-to-app-developers-since-the-launch-of-the-app-store/ https://www.businessofapps.com/news/apple-paid-out-260-billi...