It seems unlikely anyone else could have bankrolled a realistic challenge to Apple's dominance. So we would probably be in a situation where there was iPhone, and a bunch of shit phones from random manufacturers.
It would have obviously been Microsoft. They already had a mobile operating system and companies would have had no choice but to use it.
But if that were the case, they'd be in even worse anti-trust waters than they already are with the device.
Microsoft never got in trouble for having a closed operating system. And despite all of Rubin’s BS about the “definition of open”, everything that makes Android,Android outside of China is closed source and controlled by Google.
It would have obviously been Microsoft. They already had a mobile operating system and companies would have had no choice but to use it.
But if that were the case, they'd be in even worse anti-trust waters than they already are with the device.
Microsoft never got in trouble for having a closed operating system. And despite all of Rubin’s BS about the “definition of open”, everything that makes Android,Android outside of China is closed source and controlled by Google.