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carlosjobimtoday at 12:25 PM1 replyview on HN

Exactly which unfair market conditions made it impossible for Nokia, Microsoft, Samsung or BlackBerry to compete on phone operating systems?

And now you are saying that people were forced to purchase iPhones because of Android?


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wasfgwptoday at 12:40 PM

You are forced to purchase one of them, yes.

> which unfair market conditions made it impossible

Bank applications depending on various os or device level security features? Good luck getting developers to build applications for your platform in general until you have a very large number of users (even Microsoft couldn’t manage it when the oligopoly was way less entrenched)

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