[paulryanrogers]

As more government and banking requires iOS or Android people are forced into a duopoly. If not for regulated standards like SQL or laws protecting clean room reverse engineering would we still be locked into IBM today?

Apple lucked into a chockpoint. They had plenty of opportunities, even if less than other giants. Now giants sit like bridge trolls demanding a tax to cross.

The market is not healthy when so few players have so much control.

[scarface_74]

SQL is not a “regulated” standard. Even something as simple as limiting the number of rows returned is different for different databases. Let alone specifying hints and locking semantics.