A Microsoft-level monopoly is impossible in the phone market. Why? Not enough lock-in. People bought Microsoft because it was cheap, but also because buying a mac would make you that guy, whose powerpoint presentation never worked, whose Word files always looked funky, who always had trouble getting on the intranet. No matter how much embracing and extending a phone OS does, an Android phone can call a WP7 phone can call an iOS phone can call a Symbian phone can call a ...
"You can only call your friends (or 911) if they've got a Samsung"? I don't see that working too well. (Especially because, in the US, a call that sounds bad or doesn't go through on Samsung to X will be blamed on the Network, so the carriers will just leave Samsung (or whomever) out in the cold.)
"You can only call your friends (or 911) if they've got a Samsung"? I don't see that working too well. (Especially because, in the US, a call that sounds bad or doesn't go through on Samsung to X will be blamed on the Network, so the carriers will just leave Samsung (or whomever) out in the cold.)