Comment by mutatio

My provocative take of your thought experiment is that there might be social strife from the fallout, from the mass bricked devices and effects on communications. This in itself implies anti-monopoly investigation is warranted, I'd also argue it's a failure of government to allow it to get this far in the first place. That is to say the government itself should be interrogated as to why this took so long, I don't like how the gov is cheered in these circumstances whilst allowing it to get to this.

I don't think consumer choice is an argument for the allowance of these walled gardens because it's mostly an illusion of choice, that's what these corporations are experts at, and this applies to the Android ecosystem too.

I say all this as a Adam Smith fanboy and general fan of free market economics.