macdaddy1944 said: Why the heck does an apple just pay Masimo.

@jdw said:

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avon b7 said:

charlesn said:

I will never understand this. Apple has built the company around a walled garden strategy--it is a major reason that people CHOOSE to buy into the Apple ecosystem. And if you don't like the idea of that, whether you're an app user or developer, that's fine--there's a whole wide world of computing and devices other than Apple for you to CHOOSE. It is, in fact, a much bigger world than Apple's. So where is there a monopoly here? Where is there lack of choice? No one buying into the Apple ecosystem wants to see it broken open by government luddites. This isn't opening up the market to choice, this is destroying the choice that exists in the market. 

The 'monopoly' is on competition (or lack of it). 

No third party app stores are allowed to exist.

A walled garden might be fine if its ecosystem were encapsulated and all third party. 

That isn't the case and the opposite is true. iPhone absolutely requires third party apps to make the product successful. 

Once you touch the world outside your walled garden (third party app stores, payments, wifi, NFC...) things change. 

For over a decade Apple has had its cake and eaten it. That's a good run. It's probably coming to an end. 

The part where you say 'no one wants...' you miss the point. 

For one, you can't possibly know. Secondly, it is irrelevant. This isn't about what consumers want (or don't want). 

At the end of the day, whatever happens, you can opt not to use third app stores if they become reality.