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> There is AMPLE computing choice today. There is even healthy choice available in mobile alone.

No, there isn't.

If I want to be a functional human being, not some dork, it's either:

1. iOS (not jailbroken).

2. Android (not rooted).

Everything else is a FOSS hippie pipe dream, to be blunt.

And in economics there aren't just monopolies. There are also oligopolies and cartels.

We will need new laws for software ecosystems, if anyone will be bold enough to write them (they won't, see lobbying).



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