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Of course there is. Apple advantage is it's closed system not the iPhone. If you only need to maintain compatibility to your own products it's easy.

If it wear MS not Apple they would already be fined for anti competitive behavior.

Where is the difference between MS bundling IE with Windows and Apple forcing Webkit in all iOS browsers?

[BbzzbB]

You mean Facebook which is today's scapegoat. They can't buy Beat Saber or Giphy.

Microsoft is buying the largest game developer for $70B without skipping a beat.

[metadat]

And every major tech firm buying up healthcare arms.

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As of today FB owns Giphy and Beat Saber

[BbzzbB]

UK courts are fighting them over Giphy. US FTC is fighting them over Beat Games (Beat Saber) and Within Unlimited (Supernatural).

I'm not saying FAAMGs should be able to spend hundreds of billions unchecked in consolidating M&A, but this contradiction when no one flinches at Microsoft buying Activision makes it pretty obvious, in my possibly mistaken opinion, that this is no objective process.

[Retric]

There isn’t much lock in with phones or tablets as people go back and forth between iOS and Android. Apple’s advantage is simply selling a compelling product with great advertising which is why they are so profitable.

I find it odd that people get so invested in Apple as a company, but while beating them head to head is difficult it’s also potentially extremely profitable.

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Buying all the apps is an additional factor to be considered.

>There is’t much lock in with phones or tablets as people go back and forth between iOS and Android.

It still complicated to transfer all data and settings from one Android phone to another Android phone. I highly doubt it's simpler to transfer all data from iOS to Android or vice versa

[Retric]

> It still complicated to transfer all data and settings from one Android phone to another Android phone.

Odd, it’s almost trivial to go from iPhone to iPhone, but I never had 2 Android phones in a row.

Anyway, despite it being a major revenue stream most people purchase minimal if any apps and of those many can make the swap. Money sinks like Clash of Clans generally let you transfer accounts between platforms to keep people hooked. And of course subscription like Disny+ are independent.

[matt123456789]

iOS doesn’t have 95% market share. Edit to clarify: Windows had a monopoly on the desktop market in a way that is different to regulators (I guess) from the Google-Apple duopoly of today’s mobile market.

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But back then you could install another web browser. On iOS it's more like another skin for Safari

[macintux]

> Where is the difference between MS bundling IE with Windows and Apple forcing Webkit in all iOS browsers?

Monopoly.