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The market would be even less competitive without Google. It would just be Apple and Samsung. Having multiple OEMs selling similar products is definitely a good
by exelius 12y ago
The market would be even less competitive without Google. It would just be Apple and Samsung. Having multiple OEMs selling similar products is definitely a good thing: if Samsung starts to ship terrible products, another OEM can step in and users don't face a huge learning curve. We already have one vertically-integrated vendor in Apple, the market needs an "open" option as well if we want a healthy marketplace.
And they absolutely compete against each other. They just don't do it in public because there are more effective ways of competing.
- ocdtrekkie 12y agoI disagree. We have no idea how HTC, Motorola, Sony, LG, and others would've approached the market without Google. It's nearly impossible to say with any degree of accuracy.
- exelius 12y agoWe can look at their past smartphone efforts: a bunch of lackluster Windows Mobile phones. These companies are not good at developing software, and they would have been crushed by Apple. Google was only successful because they were able to leverage their existing infrastructure to provide a portfolio of advanced services.
- ocdtrekkie 12y agoAnd if they were crushed by Apple, Apple would be under the same scrutiny Google is now. And again, Google was only successful because they leveraged an illegal agreement over a major portion of the tech industry.