I think you know it's completely unrealistic for DHH to make a competing phone platform, so your argument is clearly not in good faith. Microsoft was well positioned to do it and spent many billions and failed to make it work.
Im not sure that the situation is actually that egregious yet, but if the barrier to entry becomes so high that it warps the whole economy to the detriment of society we shouldn't just say that's fine because those few companies deserve the freedom to act that way.
Microsoft wanted to establish a Windows phone platform where phone manufacturers pay license fees.
If they had finished Nokia's Maemo with a Windows graphics framework and given away the operating system for free they would have had a much better chance.
There is room for another platform as long as it serves what the market wants.
Im not sure that the situation is actually that egregious yet, but if the barrier to entry becomes so high that it warps the whole economy to the detriment of society we shouldn't just say that's fine because those few companies deserve the freedom to act that way.