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> How Microsoft and Google, and Meta allowed Apple to slowly build over independent control of their entire ecosystem, from supply chain to software is baffling
by marticode 4y ago
> How Microsoft and Google, and Meta allowed Apple to slowly build over independent control of their entire ecosystem, from supply chain to software is baffling.
Google didn't. They built Android and Chrome and ChromeOS to counter that issue and frankly it's been widely successful.
Microsoft tried (but failed) with Windows Phone.
- endisneigh 4y agoGoogle doesn’t have their own supply chain and only relatively recently begin making their own phones. And due to their licensing model the hardware and software are not nearly as optimized for one another as iOS and iPhones