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It’s slightly different because apple is a hardware manufacturer primarily that happens to have its own OS, whereas there are many other phone manufacturers, and not all of them even use google’s version of android/linux on them, nor have to in the future. And sure google makes hardware too but they’re small relatively speaking.

I guess what I’m saying is it’s less of a duopoly traditionally speaking because as companies they build primarily different things.





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