I wholeheartedly agree. More so: I do not only think, we will need a new, open mobile platform, but also feel such a great urge for it myself, that I will migrate to something alternative as soon as my mobile phone reached its EOL. I don't know how exactly that will look like, but I am eager to accept every inconvenience to escape un-free big tech.
Prices go up no matter what because corporations are never satisfied with obscene profits. Their shareholders demand MORE obscene profits every quarter, everything else be damned.
It's not about making profits. It's about growing profits.
My feelings on point.