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Far fewer PCs in the 1990s than mobile phones today.

You could live perfectly without a PC in the 1990s, everything was available using paper, phone or personal service.

Yeah, but you have some point.

In fact the Android monopoly is slightly better because you can choose to avoid using Google services and use the open source version of Android instead.

I do that in a way, I have no Google in my phone. But it gets increasingly difficult, more and more services you cannot buy without selling yourself to Google (or paying extra to be in Apple's walled garden).

you didn't need to pay microsoft a tax to run an application on 'their' devices.