Among plenty of competition, consumers voted with their wallet. Consumer preferences remain clear. That’s not a monopoly.
If one doesn’t like consumers’ choice, one can try to understand why the value one thing over another and out deliver that. But first one must really grok it.
HN threads show that’s hard as supporting the non-tech user-centric approach requires an atypical world view among Makers.
Numbers show it’s hard as a majority of the competitors are not engineered or marketed with that understanding.
Can you name 2 other OSes that compete meaningfully against Ios? Keep in mind I'm not talking about ecosystems that make less than half of the profit Ios makes for Apple. Hence the "meaningful".
If one doesn’t like consumers’ choice, one can try to understand why the value one thing over another and out deliver that. But first one must really grok it.
HN threads show that’s hard as supporting the non-tech user-centric approach requires an atypical world view among Makers.
Numbers show it’s hard as a majority of the competitors are not engineered or marketed with that understanding.
There’s likely a connection.