[moonchrome]

> Apple is not in control of your credit cards

Maybe OP was referring to https://www.apple.com/apple-card/ ?

> And for photos and music, and even passwords there are alternative services, no one forces you to use Apple provided ones.

Apple has a real tight lockdown on what gets published to iOS devices and ships defaults built to the OS so I don't really buy this argument. Microsoft got punished for way less back in the day (eg. IE bundling vs being forced to use webkit for your rendering engine...)

[threeseed]

I really wish people would stop bringing up Microsoft.

They had ~95% market share when they were pulling this IE nonsense. iOS is ~28%.

And they didn't get in trouble just for bundling IE. It was the coercion of OEMs to not bundle Netscape. Many of the companies at the time wanted to offer both but weren't allowed.

[moonchrome]

> iOS is ~28%.

This is a deliberately misleading number.

They own ~50% of US market, they have close to 50% of global mobile revenue, >70% of profit, etc. etc. They are a huge player and abusing their market position - and are big enough to bring regulatory attention in multiple countries.

This is exactly the situation where proper government intervention into markets is a good thing and I've seen multiple proposals to deal with "Apple tax" and walled garden strategy. Hopefully they come sooner rather than later.