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It's incredible how long Apple has gotten a pass which makes me wonder why are they so protected.
I honestly don't understand why anybody cares. If someone doesn't want to use the closed Apple ecosystem, just don't use Apple?
Seems to me that Apple's most attractive aspect is the closed ecosystem, and I don't see why they should be forced to change it in this way.
I use GrapheneOS btw- the only Apple device I ever owned was an iPod Touch.
It's not about if a company is shafting you then don't use them. If a company is shafting it's userbase, it shouldn't fall squarely on the customers to make a company stop shafting them, it's legislators and governments with teeth who should do something about it.
Try telling this argument to the team behind Netscape Navigator. Microsoft's most attractive aspect was using their Windows market share to, in their case, take market share in other submarkets like browsers and word processors. If the customers don't want to be behind such a dick move, they shouldn't use it? The government shouldn't do anything about it?
But hasn't Apple always been this way? It's not like people don't know what they're getting into when they choose Apple over Android. Is there something I'm missing?
There’s SO much you are missing