UK belatedly realises phone OS duopoly harms consumers
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has been looking into the mobile ecosystem space and has worked out that a duopoly isn’t great for competition.
There’s a slightly surreal air to the CMA announcement, as the mobile platform space has effectively been a duopoly for a decade, since the likes of Blackberry and Windows fell by the wayside. Furthermore, Google’s Android is a monopolist in the non-Apple market that accounts for the vast majority of all smartphones in the worl
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