The Hidden Value of the Mobile Operating System

“From time to time over the last few months, I’ve heard an argument along the following lines, often from people who should know better. ‘Operating systems are commodities. There’s no special value in them. Operating system A may have a small technical advantage in one area, and operating system B may have a small technical advantage in another area, but there’s little to choose between them.’ But there are many, many things wrong this argument.”

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