[runevault]

The difference is while apple has made a ton of money, they don't have the dominant control of a market the way a company like MS did when Gates stepped down. Monetarily sure they're stupid successful but it's still quite easy to leave most of their platforms, the biggest exception probably being iTunes due to people being used to using it to manage their music, no matter how shitty the app is.

[tjogin]

Apple aren't even trying to make it hard to leave their platforms, they're trying to make you not want to leave them.

[eftpotrm]

Well, they're definitely failing with iTunes. It's the one Apple program I use and, bluntly, it's rubbish.