• poopkins@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Android would be unprofitable and unsustainable in isolation. So that would leave each OEM to build their own thing, but to make a long story short, everybody would just get an iPhone. So then I wonder, if making such a ruling would create the void for a monopoly, what’s the sense?

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          5 months ago

          What do you mean by “get”? Who will be funding the creation of all these OSes? The phone margins are already razor thin.

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              5 months ago

              Android is already largely open source. Yet it takes a massive investment from Google to continue developing it and curate the app store with it.

              I’m genuinely struggling to envision how we move from the current situation to a somehow better but more fragmented ecosystem that doesn’t negatively affect consumer experiences. Whichever way I’ve approached it, it plays in the favor of one company in particular who already has a leading market share in the US, and I truly don’t see how that would be better.

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                5 months ago

                Sadly the failure is a governmental one. Not on any of us.

                We have monopoly laws. Mechanisms to break them up. But they generally aren’t enforced. It happens occasionally but almost never on the size of company that it was made to be used on.