[ghusto]

I didn't buy an iPhone because of the "security" that the restrictions give me, and I suspect few others who jumped ship from Android to iPhone did either.

I switched because the iPhone does what I need it to do, and then gets out of the way. It works as I need it to with my Mac, and is for the most part intuitive and well thought out. I would prefer it if I could install what I wanted from where I wanted, but it's a price I'm willing to pay. And no, allowing me to do so would not undermine any of the value I've pointed out.

I bought an iPhone _despite_ the restrictions, not because of them.

[tambourine_man]

> allowing me to do so would not undermine any of the value I've pointed out.

That’s a hard claim to make. The “just works”, “gets out of your way”, nature is very much helped by a closed and restrictive ecosystem.

[addicted]

This can clearly be shown to be false.

People said the exact same thing for decades for why they preferred Macs over Windows.

The Mac was an extremely open ecosystem.

That did not stop it from “just work”ing or “getting out of your way”.

[tambourine_man]

The Mac “just works” compared to Windows, which is a low bar.

Compared to iOS, the Mac is a complete mess, just ask any non technical user.

There's a reason why AppStores are a huge success in the mobile world and why few people dared to install anything on PCs and Macs.

[ghusto]

When I want to use Firefox with Kagi as the default search engine on Mac, it just works. Have you seen the crap you have to do on an iPhone to add Kagi to the Firefox skin of Webkit?