We had that, then we realized that companies who understand all the pieces lead to better user experiences, which is why we all have MacBooks and iPhones.
I switched from Mac to Linux precisely for this reason and the biggest surprise has been that whenever I touch a Mac again it feels like poverty.
Not because the UX is bad but because I know how the company behind it operates and I have zero trust for anything that happens on the machine.
> Not because the UX is bad
I don’t see the connection. The first sentence says that walled gardens create bad UX, but Macs are the premier mainstream walled gardens and you don’t find their UX bad.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-usin...
Which is why the EU has decided to break up the walled gardens - although IMHO they could ramp up their efforts a bit.
Using my Apple Silicon Macbook is a way better user experience than my Intel Macbook ever was. It certainly feels like they invested in user experience well after the walls were up around the garden.
Just because vertical integration occasionally works doesn't mean it is actually good for the consumer.
Omg this, can Apple please stop sabotaging Google Maps and Google Photos :(
Source: former Xoogler PM
I fully believe Google holds back differentiating features and DSPA is certainly mismanaged, but I'd hope these basic functionalities are not the ones since there's always the tradeoff between serving 50%+ of your mobile users and trying to differentiate Android/Pixel...
Apple does shit like make it impossible for Google Fi to set up easily on iPhone, so I just assumed most of the UX idiocy came from Apple's anticompetitive review process.
the eu disagrees in that it views itself as representative of the consumer. similar to how us states set laws that may be more strict than others.
get a large enough government of a populace with a large enough portion of the sales, and companies can be made to act. which can be good, but isn’t a guarantee.
just because companies can be forced to act doesn’t mean the forced actions are actually good for the consumer.
(plus a decent amount is political theatre.)