Once again: how do you imagine the imaginary free market works?

How do you imagine the real world works? Even in the very text written by Adam Smith he says that free market only works in a regulated environment. Because once a few gets big enough, they can control the whole market.

Why do you think Microsoft failed even with the tremendous amount of money they poured into and even with having an arguibly great UX?

> How do you imagine the real world works?

The way it works. It's not me complaining about "Free market doesn’t work that way."

> Because once a few gets big enough, they can control the whole market.

Yes, yes they will.

So what is, exactly, the nature of your complaint?

> Literally nothing prevents any of the current players in the "non-free market" to develop their own phone. Heck, Microsoft even tried to do it.

Literally, the already existing 2 platforms prevent a new one from emerging —- thus it is incorrect to say that the free market will solve the issue.

Anyone can launch a new phone with its own hardware and OS and a marketplace. It just takes a lot of money that most people don’t have. I think what you are really complaining about is not enough people have the money to launch a new phone

Anyone can launch a new phone, but even one of the richest company failed, even when they paid for app developers to create apps?

> thus it is incorrect to say that the free market will solve the issue.

Are you arguing with yourself now?

This is your text (emphasis mine): "And frankly, there will not be more mobile platforms because even the current two is already much for companies to develop for. Free market doesn’t work that way."