I can install apps that Google doesn't approve, and app stores other than Google's on my pixel.
I can get root access to my pixel.
I can replace the operating with an open source fork on my pixel.
Google is not using its monopoly on the hardware to get a monopoly on the software - they're competing on software primarily on its own merits and the convenience of being the default.
No other phone company that I know of even develops their own operating system.
Apple really is unique in their attempt to control the software that runs on the mass market general purpose computing devices that they sell.
I can get root access to my pixel.
I can replace the operating with an open source fork on my pixel.
Google is not using its monopoly on the hardware to get a monopoly on the software - they're competing on software primarily on its own merits and the convenience of being the default.
No other phone company that I know of even develops their own operating system.
Apple really is unique in their attempt to control the software that runs on the mass market general purpose computing devices that they sell.