[funkyfourier]

Non-technical iOS users probably don't give a flying crap and would not even know if it was possible to download a PC emulator from a third party app store. The iPhone does lots of things right, and having some obscure options which only the technical crowd cares about will not change that.

To become another Android iOS would have to be licensed to other vendors and appear on cheaply made devices dragging its name through the mud.

[aeyes]

What's your point? If nobody cares about it then let the app on the app store.

[immibis]

If you want to be able to run your software, on your device, buy an Android or Linux or even Windows device. Anything but Apple. The dollars don't lie: for some reason, people want to be controlled.

[mirsadm]

Except they don't. Some might and they seem intent on telling everybody else how it's the best option for them. Just let me install whatever I want. My choice if it explodes.

[wiseowise]

What the hell are you talking about? I buy iPhone despite it being locked-down piece of shit garden, not because of it.

[immibis]

Being a walled garden is the main differentiator between iPhones and every other phone. You chose the walled garden over the non-walled non-garden.

[wiseowise]

Being fluid device with zero (non-Apple) spyware and sane default with UI/UX that don’t change every major release while providing ecosystem that has literally no competitors in sight, but yeah, it’s definitely walled garden that is a main differentiator. Facepalm

[withinboredom]

I already bought an iPhone dude. I'm not dishing out another grand just to install Android.