Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
by intended on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @08:34AM
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Android has a 66% market share in the EU, and ~55% in the US - which it gained only recently (~2021/22). Otherwise Android has had the largest share globally.
By definition, A monopoly force does not have a 33% or 50% market share. It has full control.
If you want, you can switch. If you want, you can use products that are NOT locked to a vendor. You have Dropbox, you have obsidian, email - any number of tools that are not vendor locked.
If you want a phone, you can take many of the comparable or superior phones in the Android ecosystem.
This is being phrased as a goal for "User Freedom". If a user wants the freedom to have a locked ecosystem, where they are the actual paying customer, so what?
Any absolutist user freedom argument has to also deal with users who dont want that freedom.
If this is about meaningful freedoms, then the threat is revenue models. There is no reason the Apple ecosystem should outperform Android - yet it does.
By definition, A monopoly force does not have a 33% or 50% market share. It has full control.
If you want, you can switch. If you want, you can use products that are NOT locked to a vendor. You have Dropbox, you have obsidian, email - any number of tools that are not vendor locked.
If you want a phone, you can take many of the comparable or superior phones in the Android ecosystem.
This is being phrased as a goal for "User Freedom". If a user wants the freedom to have a locked ecosystem, where they are the actual paying customer, so what?
Any absolutist user freedom argument has to also deal with users who dont want that freedom.
If this is about meaningful freedoms, then the threat is revenue models. There is no reason the Apple ecosystem should outperform Android - yet it does.