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It might be easy enough but it's not very helpful because it's a duopoly. I disagree with even more of Google's business practices than Apple's.

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Fair enough, surely someone in Europe has made an alternative that can you move to then?

Like what? Blackberry OS and Windows Phone are dead. There aren't any feasible smartphone platforms out there besides iOS and Android, unless you think your average consumer should be buying a Pinephone or something (and I wouldn't consider that anywhere close to feasible anyways).

My point is that iOS didn’t come with the earth - people moved to it and adopted it vs palm and windows mobile.

Can you imagine people complaining for regulation on windows mobile rather than just moving to something that does what you want lol.

There was Nokia's MeeGo that failed in 2011 despite being far more polished. Even then iOS and Android were already too established.

You're posting on a discussion board about the tech business. Surely you must understand what network effects are.

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