It’s about choice. I want a tightly integrated experience on my iPhone and Mac. I don’t want regulators as designers.
iPhone and Macs own a small fraction of their markets around the world. Clearly there are alternatives and you don’t need to choose an iPhone or a Mac.
Even so Apple shouldn't be able to use its position to disadvantage users. I believe being able to run whatever software you want on the hardware you buy is a basic right. If you want to forgo that, fine, but you should have the choice.
The fact that they have a small market share is not relevant when they have many millions of users.
This kind of thing leads to oligopolies that disadvantage consumers, which is what we have with phone app stores on Android and iPhone.
> I believe being able to run whatever software you want on the hardware you buy is a basic right. If you want to forgo that, fine, but you should have the choice.
Ok, so then why do you support the EU denying me that choice?
> It’s about choice. I want a tightly integrated experience on my iPhone and Mac.
If it's about choice, then Apple performs very poorly at it. Apple is great if your requirements are average. A large minority of people still have to look elsewhere.
Yes locking products down means less freedom and less choice. And this is made worse by Apple buying up their supply chain and precious slots at semiconductor foundries. Not everybody is an average consumer looking for average products. But these products are using precious resources and outcompete more generally useful products just by market volume. Apple is behind the hardware version of Eternal September. First the internet got spoiled by the masses, and now our hardware too.
>It’s about choice. I want a tightly integrated experience on my iPhone and Mac. I don’t want regulators as designers.
if you are from outside EU then you are fine for now, you will not have this freedoms.
If you are from EU then keep calm, nobody will force you to use a better application or service then the default ones from Apple. Side loading was available on Android and facebook Messenger and whatsapp are still on the official store despite all the FUD from Apple extremist fanboys, you can continue sitting inside the Apple walls.
iPhone and Macs own a small fraction of their markets around the world. Clearly there are alternatives and you don’t need to choose an iPhone or a Mac.