I'd like to add that a near-monopoly of a closed platform like iOS would be much worse that the situation we had with Microsoft. Microsoft had an advantage by

I'd like to add that a near-monopoly of a closed platform like iOS would be much worse that the situation we had with Microsoft. Microsoft had an advantage by shipping IE with Windows and making it the default browser. With a closed system like iOS, they have just removed Netscape/Firefox/Wikipedia/Google/Adobe Reader from the platform. And nobody could complain, because they all agreed that this is OK when they submitted their apps. So if a closed platform wins the current smartphone war, the platform owner could just "turn off Google" at will.