[EMIRELADERO]

Unless you are entering into a contract with a mobile career, that is the only thing you purchase. If you want to get into metaphorical lines of speech about how you buy into an ecosystem and all that, go ahead. But the legal reallity is that when buying an iPhone, you buy an iPhone, and it's yours. Same as any other standard purchase for any physical good.

[stinky613]

On yeah? So how do people run iOS apps on instruction-executing machines that weren't made by Apple?

[0des]

With emulators

https://techviral.net/run-ios-apps-on-pc/

https://windowsreport.com/run-ios-apps-windows-10/

[EMIRELADERO]

They can't unless those apps are vetted by Apple. And that's where the whole antitrust issue comes in.