👆right here.

Like Microsoft, stupid late to the party. Got crushed. Buddy of mine who still works in MS tells me how Balmer was useless and stupid, he looked at the iPhone and called it ‘stupid’. Lol.

Sort of like how nuclear tech is old as hell, which from what I hear is actually far more secure than more modern systems due to less abstraction and QoL features.

There is nothing stopping a company from making their own smartphone, with their own OS, and their own App Store — several exists today. The problem is adoption, and high cost.