OK, can we stop using the world monopoly incorrectly. There is a duopoly of Google and Apple for phone OSs. They don't even have a monopoly on the phone market. What I hear is crying. I hear, I don't like the status quo. We have this false idea that everything should be "balanced", whatever that means. Who decides what the right "balance" is? Should it be the government? What about their monopoly. They kill people. They steal from people. They are the evil ones.

While on on the governments of the world who seem to behave like the arbitrators of what is right and wrong, how do we think companies like Apple become what they are? They have mountains of IP law preventing competition. Apple is not the problem. The state is the problem. And the state is paid off to create an environment where ideas are caged under "Intellectual Property" laws. Competitors are not allowed to take what works in the Apple system and change it up. This is what creates the problems people complain about. Not Apple. Apple uses the system, don't get me wrong. They either use the system or it is used against them.

Apple is successful because they make a very good product that people love. They do not have a monopoly. I dislike them and their practices but those practices would be better reformed by ripping down IP law and opening the world to true free market forces. Few people go to the root of these problems. This is why have very little interest in politics because it is all bull shit. Few if any are interested in understanding the problems let alone fixing them. They want headlines and votes. They want their payday from their special interest groups. And all the while the state gets more power and money and we become less free.

If you don't like Apple I'm with you. Stop buying their stuff. Run GrapheneOS and a Linux computer. The free market is real democracy. We are all voting with our choices every day. Stop ceding this to the state or one day you will wake up and realize you've created a prison for your children.