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by oblio 1679 days ago
No, no, you're wrong! The free market will solve this!

You know that high margins are someone else's opportunity? Surely someone else will build an alternative that undercuts Android.

Ah, you say there's a huge moat? Worth billions if not trillions of dollars? Huge market recognition? Agreements with huge companies? Regulations and government approvals all over the world? Years and years of development by thousands of developers?

On top of that there's an oligopoly in place by companies already convicted of such agreements for other issues (see the anti-poaching agreement from a decade back)? What? Like a cartel that probably fixes prices?