That's right! Just throw out your iPhone, re-buy every app and any digital content you've ever bought for it, and switch to Android! It's easy!
This is like arguing that Microsoft wasn't monopolistic in the 90s because Linux existed.
Unless you’re exclusively using first party apps, the vast majority are on both platforms.
And speaking of Microsoft- Microsoft had a 80%+ market share and Apple obliterated them. Create a better experience and people will move
Which technologies from Europe have been objectively superior and were killed off by Apple or Google due to abusing their position?
Can you imagine people complaining for regulation on windows mobile rather than just moving to something that does what you want lol.
You're posting on a discussion board about the tech business. Surely you must understand what network effects are.
Just download the new software and then you’re done right?
They could also pick up customers.
Paid apps will have to be re-purchased, your Airpods won't work as well, your Apple Watch won't work at all with Android, you won't be able to message your contacts who use iMessage without SMS, etc.
iPhone owners tend to buy into the Apple ecosystem which ends up being a whole bunch of vendor lock in, and it becomes unreasonable to switch platforms. The ability to switch to Android certainly doesn't give Apple a free pass here.
That’s what I don’t get - people buy locked down stuff and then complain that it’s locked down. There are plenty of alternatives that aren’t locked down.
By FairPhone, use Signal, use Webapps, etc.
I don’t get the defeatist mentality.
And in many cases, you don't have a choice to use Signal or etc. What if all your contacts are using iMessage? Sure, most of them will have SMS, but that's not guaranteed. There will always be edge cases of users who are locked in due to situations outside of their control. Shouldn't we be trying to make things less locked down for them?
Take this site for example - it doesn’t display Reddit posts or work with your Reddit account.
It’s not worth energy complaining to the administrators saying that it should work with your Reddit account.
The same relationship exists with iMessage and signal
I mean... yes? Even just affording a new handset could be prohibitive if you want a parity of hardware features. But also, we shouldn't underrate the barrier presented to nontechnical users by having to learn a new interface, especially when Apple banks so hard on its (superficial) reputation for Just Working. I think we all know some (especially, but not exclusively, older) people who have just attained a sense of bare competency at driving their iPhones and will invite you to pull that from their cold dead hands.