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This is a bit of a false equivalency; "Apple's" successful platform is a general-purpose computing device owned by the user while Meta's are hosted services.
These traditionally have different expectations, with game consoles being the exception. Occulus devices seem more like game consoles to me, while iPhones are closer to general-purpose computers with a few weird restrictions. I don't like either, but I see game consoles as less problematic because their use case isn't important.
Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp are important. Imagine if Gmail didn’t allow you to use other email clients, you had to use a google made app or the web interface. Would that be a write-off as “not important”?
I did not say that they're not important. I said that they're hosted services, which traditionally don't have the same expectation of user control as computers that users own.