[ApolloFortyNine]

>Apple got this by building an awesome product, but they also played an incredibly evil game that puts Microsoft to shame.

It really is funny how we went from a major anti trust case against Microsoft for simply bundling a web browser with their OS [1]. The original decision in that case was actually to break up Microsoft, though was lost on appeal. And here we have Apple doing many magnitudes worse. Even in this original antitrust case, you could always bypass Microsoft entirely to install whatever software you wished. Apple has quite literally never allowed that possibility, has no intention of doing so, and any software you develop for the platform entitles Apple to a 30% cut. There's many markets with a profit margin under 10%, and here we have Apple taking 30%.

And people defend them for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

[echelon]

Apple fans are doing evil. They just don't realize it. They're too awestruck by the brand to understand the harm it does.

Talk to your legislators. That is the way to fix this tribulation.

[whydoibother]

Wanting a sane and stable and reliable device is doing evil? Oh please. If the changes happened that people (who apparently don't use iOS) wanted, iOS would turn into the godawful shitshow that is Android. No thanks.

If you don't like Apple, boycott them. Easy.

[forty]

That people don't like the UX of Android, I totally understand (I did not like iOS' last time I tried, so it makes sense to me that someone that likes it doesn't like Android's).

But I don't understand why you would suggest Android is unstable and reliable. I have been using miscellaneous Android devices for some time now, and I don't remember having any stability or reliability issues with the OS.

As for the "boycott", I agree as a user, it's easy. But as a an app developer it's certainly much tougher given their large market share.

[wvenable]

> Wanting a sane and stable and reliable device is doing evil?

That can be true while at the same time being true that Apple is taking advantage of their position to extort money from developers and end users.

[kristiandupont]

>If you don't like Apple, boycott them. Easy

If your customers demand an iOS app, boycotting them is not easy. It's expensive either way.

[throw-away_42]

> and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats to that monopoly, including Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Software, RealNetworks, Linux, and others

More than "simply bundling a web browser".

[avereveard]

Also they were trying to vendor lock third party hardware, acting in concert with OEM, it was far deeper and wider than Apple controlling access on their own hardware/software/user stack.

[avereveard]

Apple damage control party has lost the plot if they're going haywire downvoting snippets of factual information