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Google and Apple didn't exist as trillion$ competitors when Microsoft got anti-trusted. Harder to justfy Apple's dominance when Android and Windows exist and h

• talldayo 2y ago
  Apple's dominance operates independently of the marketshare Android and Windows maintain. If anything, the existence of MacOS continues to prove that Apple can ship a high-quality and robust computing experience, and chooses not to on iOS to maintain control of the platform. This can be a problem. For one, independent of Microsoft and Android's inter-competition, Apple's customers are now entirely isolated to whatever Apple curates. This is a captive market; one that Apple ensures operates inside the confines of their restrictive definitions. That has long-term effects on that market, some positive but many expressly negative. Once combined with Apple's aspirations with the MFi program, the Lightning connector "incident" in Europe, the Epic Games tempur-tantrum and their overall product strategy, it becomes blatantly clear that Apple wants to trade innovation for control. They don't want you to make the iPhone better, they want you to make them money. That's it.