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by diffeomorphism 680 days ago
"buy it or don't" does not work with oligopolies. If you had a free market, I would agree, but you very much don't in this case.
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chipdart 680 days ago
> "buy it or don't" does not work with oligopolies. If you had a free market, I would agree, but you very much don't in this case.

Why do you believe there is no free market on mobile phones? I mean, what exactly forces you to pick an iPhone over anything?

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antihipocrat 680 days ago
That's not quite what the parent meant. There is a choice between very few phone manufacturers, and even less mobile operating systems.

Don't want to sign up to one multinational behemoth? Well, your choice is to sign up to one other multinational behemoth.

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chipdart 680 days ago
> There is a choice between very few phone manufacturers, and even less mobile operating systems.

I don't think that the manufacturer assertion is true at all. You can go to any random online store and get dozens of brands and manufacturers. It just so happens that popular demand focuses only on a hand full of manufacturers who are outcompeting everyone in the free market.

Take a look even to Android's market share. You have four manufacturers with double digit market shares, and a couple of dozen entriee. Is that what you call a monopoly?

https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers

The OS comment is even more badfling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_operating...

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antihipocrat 679 days ago
Parent used the word oligopoly. Your comment and links seem to agree?
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