[saagarjha]

> they are making it very difficult for anyone to use, for example, non-Apple-branded cloud storage

Which is why they added support for arbitrary file providers to integrate with iOS 11's Files app, and why they announced that iWork will support collaborating through Box last month?

[hungerstrike]

I still can’t use whatever SMS app that I want to. I still can’t replace Safari as the browser that opens links from apps. I can’t replace contacts or the phone dialer and I can’t open contact address links in anything but Apple Maps.

Heck, they don’t even let me organize my home screen the way that I want to.

[azag0]

At this point, you are just complaining that iOS is not open source.

[hungerstrike]

Those are pretty basic functions that Apple just locks you into. iOS would not have to be open source for those things to change… At all.

[azag0]

That wasn't my point. My point was that all those requests are feature requests, as opposed to lifting some artificial restrictions. Because iOS is not open source, they would need to be coded by Apple, so it's a perfectly valid business decision on their sise not to invest in them.

[muddi900]

Macos is not open source. You can use Firefox as your default browser.

[lovich]

I don't know. Those all seem like valid complaints to me. The os is separate from the applications and everything he listed has its own industry.

Microsoft was reamed over installing IE as the default browser on their OS, so how is not letting you change safari as the default on iOS any different?

[dpkonofa]

Microsoft had a monopoly. Apple doesn't. If you don't like it, go buy an Android phone.

[lovich]

Coulda said the same thing with Microsoft, go buy a Mac. Monoply power isn't a binary stat, it's a sliding scale and eventually these companies get enough power to start affecting other industries

[eesmith]

A court judgment that a company has abused its monopoly power is a binary stat.

[StavrosK]

I mean, that's exactly what many of us are doing.

[dpkonofa]

I know. That's my point. People are complaining about decisions made by the company as if they're civil rights violations.

"I can't change the default SMS app on my phone!" This has always been the case with the iPhone since the beginning. Until Apple says that this is now a new part of the OS, pretending like that was some kind of bait and switch or deceptive business practice is completely silly.