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Too bad your unregulated ideal free market doesn't work in real life because companies tend to merge until you as a consumer end up with 2 or at most 3 options that are equally shitty.

It would be just fine if you had 20 interchangeable OS vendors competing for your buck indeed. Unfortunately you have 2 or at best 3 if you count the mythical desktop linux. And they're not interchangeable.

Same for phones, can I choose between 10 phone operating systems? Um no, there are just two of them.




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