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"buy it or don't" does not work with oligopolies. If you had a free market, I would agree, but you very much don't in this case.

• chipdart 2y ago
  > "buy it or don't" does not work with oligopolies. If you had a free market, I would agree, but you very much don't in this case. Why do you believe there is no free market on mobile phones? I mean, what exactly forces you to pick an iPhone over anything?
  • antihipocrat 2y ago
    That's not quite what the parent meant. There is a choice between very few phone manufacturers, and even less mobile operating systems. Don't want to sign up to one multinational behemoth? Well, your choice is to sign up to one other multinational behemoth.
    • chipdart 2y ago
      > There is a choice between very few phone manufacturers, and even less mobile operating systems. I don't think that the manufacturer assertion is true at all. You can go to any random online store and get dozens of brands and manufacturers. It just so happens that popular demand focuses only on a hand full of manufacturers who are outcompeting everyone in the free market. Take a look even to Android's market share. You have four manufacturers with double digit market shares, and a couple of dozen entriee. Is that what you call a monopoly? https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers The OS comment is even more badfling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_operating...
      • antihipocrat 2y ago
        Parent used the word oligopoly. Your comment and links seem to agree?