Comment by ThrowawayR2
4 years ago
> "Windows Phone was also another well-funded competitor that fell on its face."
Google had a hand in that, though, by intentionally blocking interoperability with YouTube and other Google services for WP. Even back then they were willing to play dirty to keep their monopoly.
With hundreds of billions of profits on the line this shouldn’t be surprising.
The only thing a business cares about is profits. Everything else is branding.