What’s distasteful about that? That’s their key differentiator that enabled a lot of their advantages. And there's also Android anyone could use if they’d want to.
The fact that if you do not control the product you do not actually own the product.
You never buy a Apple device, you pay alot of money for the permission to use the device temporarily
That is distasteful to many people.
>That’s their key differentiator that enabled a lot of their advantages.
This is complete rubbish, there is no reason Apple could not have the App Store, have all the their "advantages" and by default lock their OS down, but still have a path for people that choose to break out of the wall garden, to do so.
