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There’s no incentive for big players to play nicely with other platforms so they just won’t. Hardware standards like Qi2 are different since it affects costs directly. Software is usually built for lock-in since quite some time.

“Buy your mom an iPhone” and how Apple buried beeper mini into nonexistence was a nice example.



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