Comment by summm

For any of those regulation attempts, the duopoly has been coming up with another countermeasure that delayed and nullified the main effect.

Remote attestation as a broadly used technology will in itself protect the duopoly. Without it, smaller competitors could just offer an alternative that is automatically compatible with the app or service ecosystem, implement compatibility layers or client software compatible to that services.

Now they can't, because even if they offered their own remote attestation service, they would need to convince every app supplier individually to explicitly support their system.

The only way to enable any kind of growing competition would be to outright abolish hostile technologies like remote attestation, bootloader lockdown and so on.