I'll never understand this argument...<br>Do you walk into a NIKE Store and ask them to let you sell Adidas shoes within it too? <br>It's their store, their platform, their device. If you don't like it, then don't use it. *cough Elon *cough,(reply>), @Jérôme NANCY Phone booths have disappeared. But again, Flip Phones, ya know, those ones with physcial buttons on them, still well exist.<br>Find your way? Use a physcialy map? Or any other GPS Devices?<br>Public Transport? Every station have a time table. Or look up the time beforehand on your computer.<br>SMS still exists. You don't need to use all these messaging apps.<br>MP3 Player still exists. iPod anyone?<br>You do realize you can read email on your computer too, right?<br><br>Yes. I know all these are braindead and stupid comebacks. Cause again, I don't think it's fair to punish the companies for providing a store front that billions of lives depend on.,(reply>), @H.M Chuang In a world where everyone expect to have a way to contact you directly, where phone booths have disappeared, where you are supposed to find your way because you have a map application, or you know the timing of the public transport, where banks are closing offices because everybody manage their account with their phone, where Facebook / iMessage/ WhatsApp are the primary way of messaging, where streaming is the standard legal way to listen music, where finding a job often require an email, when many websites motto is "mobiles first"... Not only Internet is already officially a basic necessity, but a smartphone is the primary and easiest solution to get access to it. You won't directly die without it, but not having one will make your life exponentially harder and disconnected from society.,(reply>), @Jérôme NANCY Again, you are not forced nor required to use a smartphone.,(reply>), @H.M Chuang Android + IOS own 99% of the phone market. Most people don't use landlines phones anymore, because smartphones are now the standard. What are you even talking about ?,(reply>), @Jérôme NANCY It's not Monopoly or Duopoly though. You could always go buy something like a Nokia FlipPhone with niether OS, or use a random Chinaese phone with "Pineapple OS," no one is forcing you to use Android and iOS. <br>Monopoly would only work on something essential to your life, such as water, where if they raise the price, the people still have to pay to survive. And as a result, the rule of Supply and Demand no longer works.<br>I don't think smartphones are essential to your life though. If you don't like the market, go buy other phones. Supply and Demand still functions in this market.