Thoughts on the antitrust case?

My first reaction is that it's going to be extremely difficult to prove.

I've long been critical of Apple's walled garden and their massive markups on components like storage and RAM, but I understand their appeal and clearly so do millions of customers.

I could have bought an iPhone but I chose Android devices because that's what I prefer. Does Apple really make it that hard to move away?

@voltronic only every time I contemplate a different operating system...so not a fan of Android devices. Not as durable, in my opinion, and there's a lot of PITA programming you have to do.

@joycereynoldsward @voltronic

One thing that's certainly true of Android is that it's incredibly fragmented, so one person's experience can't tell you much about someone else's.

Something like 90% of Apple device users are running whatever the latest version of the (single) OS is. The figure for Android users is less than half that.

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That fragmentation is the price you pay for device choice, I suppose. The differing security patch levels are a real problem though. Google could fix that by requiring all manufacturers to keep pushing out those updates as a condition of the licensing agreement.

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They'd put a bazillion tiny third-world cellphone makers in India and such right out of business, and they don't choose to do that, and GOSH.

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