There is no competitor to their super expensive product.
If it wear MS not Apple they would already be fined for anti competitive behavior.
Where is the difference between MS bundling IE with Windows and Apple forcing Webkit in all iOS browsers?
Monopoly.
Microsoft is buying the largest game developer for $70B without skipping a beat.
I'm not saying FAAMGs should be able to spend hundreds of billions unchecked in consolidating M&A, but this contradiction when no one flinches at Microsoft buying Activision makes it pretty obvious, in my possibly mistaken opinion, that this is no objective process.
I find it odd that people get so invested in Apple as a company, but while beating them head to head is difficult it’s also potentially extremely profitable.
>There is’t much lock in with phones or tablets as people go back and forth between iOS and Android.
It still complicated to transfer all data and settings from one Android phone to another Android phone. I highly doubt it's simpler to transfer all data from iOS to Android or vice versa
Odd, it’s almost trivial to go from iPhone to iPhone, but I never had 2 Android phones in a row.
Anyway, despite it being a major revenue stream most people purchase minimal if any apps and of those many can make the swap. Money sinks like Clash of Clans generally let you transfer accounts between platforms to keep people hooked. And of course subscription like Disny+ are independent.
The average person is just checking email, taking pictures of their food, reading garbage news sites, and watching mindless fad videos.
That’s basically the reason me and every iPhone owner I know buy one.
Yet. If iOS News app is any indication of how bad their ads will be then I think they really will be hurting themselves in the long term. My guess is there are many like myself who now use Apple products as the “least bad” option rather than truly liking them anymore, that sentiment will grow way faster when people start seeing ads in more places.
I’m one of those people where consistent keyboard shortcuts is the main sticky feature, but that only let’s me put up with so much.
When my $1000 Galaxy started waking me up with Samsung push notification ads I had not opted in to, I knew I was done with Android.
But yes it should be widely known that android on samsung isn't the same as android on nokia or motorola.
Integration with Apple ecosystem, properly designed OS and not mishmash of dozens visual styles.
That is two different statements. HN users are not Joe Average. Apart from working with the Apple Ecosystem, I cannot get enough privacy on Android. The new changes does not mean that Android is acceptable, it just means that the Iphone is also not acceptable, leaving me with zero acceptable smart phones.
There are two, again two platforms that matter for phones. That's it. "Well, it is not 1, so we can just twiddle our thumbs and ignore the problem" is not at all convincing. And then people get sidetracked with "but the term monopoly taken literally means...". Yes, nobody cares. Antitrust is explicitly not just about that.