Well we tell railroad operators how to do their job every day so that multiple companies running the actual trains can coexist and compete. Or even better, we o

Well we tell railroad operators how to do their job every day so that multiple companies running the actual trains can coexist and compete. Or even better, we own them publicly. I don't really see a problem in that, do you? Since smartphones are new railroads, they should be treated as a platform on that the actual innovation happens. They should be robust (so that users can rely on them), neutral (concentrate on their own layer in the stack), adhere to standards (for cross border cooperation) and provide as little friction to competition on top of them as possible.