Comment by iosjunkie
2 years ago
This hard for me to understand. Apple hasn’t changed its approach their wall garden in ages. The consumer market decided to reward that model with adoption of Apple products.
2 years ago
This hard for me to understand. Apple hasn’t changed its approach their wall garden in ages. The consumer market decided to reward that model with adoption of Apple products.
Market adoption is more than a function of ecosystem openness. Blackberry commanded a large chunk of the market back in the day, maybe or maybe not because of the value they generated for consumers, but definitely because of the network effect. Several factors at play here.
Worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act
There was a time when teens had to be on BBM or be left behind.
> Apple hasn’t changed its approach their wall garden in ages.
The same action might be legit with 10% marketshare but lesive of market competition when at 60% marketshare.
Take golden-era Microsoft: bundling a default browser was anti-competitive for them, whereas it clearly wasn't for any Linux distribution out there.