Comment by Draiken
2 years ago
If their tight experience is so superior, why do they restrict competition? Wouldn't they win anyways?
IMO it's clear that without abusing its position, we would actually have competition for all of the bundled services from Apple.
But this is capitalism. The ultimate goal is always monopoly, so they'll keep chasing that by whatever means necessary.
>easy to make alternatives to Apple products
What? This is plain false. Entering this market is extremely expensive and hard to do. The duopoly is there for a reason. Even giants like Microsoft tried to enter it and couldn't.
> If their tight experience is so superior, why do they restrict competition? Wouldn't they win anyways?
iOS today regularly updates with improvements across the full software stack, up to the Apple apps themselves. Sometimes these changes are major. In the world the justice department is asking for, big changes to —for example, Messages app— would have to be coordinated with every app developer in that category. Changes would takes much, much longer, and in many cases would have to be watered down.
They're already making the changes they want to, except they give themselves special treatment.
All they have to do is give everyone the special treatment.