“You’re just being obtuse here. The ecosystem of Apple is not just iOS, it’s all of their products. The reason Google can’t work like that is because they don’t have an ecosystem like that (only chromebooks).”
Nonsense. Google’s business is advertising and the whole lock in is to the mechanisms by which they get your data, whether that is by scanning your gmail, your search requests, your clicks on the advertisements they carry, your use of maps. That is an ecosystem. Chrome is just part of that ecosystem.
“ You mean when Google decided to start charging Apple Gigabucks for having Google maps on iOS”
“Ah. An Apple apologist.”
I’ve appologised for nothing. I’m pointing out that Apple’s refusal to pay about $1billion a year for iOS users to have access to the Google Maps app is not protectionism against Google’s Maps app.
“That’s not what happened. Apple didn’t want to pay for a licence for turn-by-turn navigation and thought that gave Google a *competitive* advantage.””
Ah. A Google apologist.
And that’s conflating two separate issues. Google wanted Apple to pay for continued access to their map base. And there is no reason why they shouldn’t. And there is no reason why Apple shouldn’t release their own to avoid paying Google.
In addition Google wanted paying for a turn by turn facility in the iOS Google maps app. And there is no reason why they shouldn’t. And there is no reason why Apple shouldn’t release their own to avoid paying Google.
Apple provided turn by turn in their own app and left Google to do whatevber it wanted.
In the end Google provided both app access to the map base, and app turn by turn navigation, and got paid for neither.
Non of that is anticompetative. And none of that is evidence of lock in.
And in the long result more Apple users use Apple maps than Google maps. Far more use Apple maps turn by turn navigation because the battery lasts several times longer than with the Google app. And Google lost access to a whole pile of user information by being greedy.
Is that the debacle you meant?