> If you’re not happy with the Apple products or the value you’re getting from them, then simply stop buying them or making apps for them.
You don’t have to use an iPhone. You’re welcome to use any Android based phone you’d like and install anything Google allows on it.
Leaving aside all the idealist "I own it" stuff that's been repeated here many times, there's another angle to this.
If you're a mobile app developer, you're effectively forced to develop for Android and iOS, it's a duopoly.
Would you accept a status quo where there were only two store brands for the entire US, and any seller of any product at all had to use one, the other or both? And all citizens had to shop in one or the other, and couldn't even switch because it carried many additional costs?
There is another alterative. People can use the EUs laws, and Apple can either follow the law, or be fined 10s of billions of dollars, or leave the EU.
Apple is the one who will have to get with the program and will no longer be able to force users to not have control of their own devices.
You don’t have to use an iPhone. You’re welcome to use any Android based phone you’d like and install anything Google allows on it.
Or use any European based phone operating system. Oh wait, there’s none, because any phone company that became successful in Europe had to run away.