This article is basically judging Google for competing against market leaders.
By the tone of this article, it would seem the author (MG Siegler) prefers instead that a monopoly exists in every sector of the market and that the companies are all buddy-buddy with one another.
A large section of Apple bloggers are taking this whole Google vs. Apple thing as if monopoly of the iPhone was a divine, assured panacea that was unfairly disrupted by Google's misstep that was Android. It was as if something akin to their 'right' was denied and they will go to any lengths to restore it.
It is mind boggling how the vestiges of religious zealotry make a big part of technology evangelism! You would think that the technically inclined will take at least a tad bit logical approach to it but no - it's equally worse or more than religious zealotry!
By the tone of this article, it would seem the author (MG Siegler) prefers instead that a monopoly exists in every sector of the market and that the companies are all buddy-buddy with one another.
Fuck everything about that.