Comment by globular-toast
2 years ago
> trivial to not buy Apple products
Irrelevant. Monopoly doesn't mean coercing people into the market.
> easy to make alternatives to Apple products and easy to buy feature equivalent devices to Apple products
It's not only not easy, it's not possible. Your mistake is thinking of phones as computers. They are not computers, at least not to the vast majority of users. They are devices that connect to other compatible devices to do telecommunications. It's just like if plain old telephones ran a proprietary protocol and only one vendor could make them.
Let’s hear some examples? Even things like iMessage have fallback to SMS, not to mention dozens of alternatives that work on android, iOS and more. What’s the problem?
You know what the problem is. Nobody cares about technicalities, what matters is practicalities. You can't buy an iPhone from anyone but Apple. It's as simple as that. No, Android phones are not iPhone alternatives and you know damn well they are not.
Why aren’t android phones equivalent? I had an iPhone and pixel and switched from both multiple times with no issues.
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> You can't buy an iPhone from anyone but Apple
You can't buy a Model 3 from anyone but Tesla either. But that is not what makes a monopoly.
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You can't buy anyone's product from anyone but the manufacturer of that product, what is this tautology meant to mean?
There are a lot of android phone users that will disagree with you here.