> I wonder why people think it's ok for Apple to maintain a stranglehold on iOS It is not OK for Apple either. But I agree that it is a matter of expectations

> I wonder why people think it's ok for Apple to maintain a stranglehold on iOS It is not OK for Apple either. But I agree that it is a matter of expectations. iOS is closed and hard to work with in the same way that you do on desktop (Windows/Linux/OSX/...). You can't access freely the file system. There is a lot of hassle to share documents between applications. You are restricted in the peripherals that you can add. And a long list of things that makes mobile OSs not apt for software development or even office work. I use Windows, Linux and OSX machines for software development. And I'm happy with all of them. But I have never used iOS or Android for development, I don't know anyone that does it either, as it is just too hard to work efficiently with that OSs. The problem here is that it looks like Microsoft wants to bring mobile restrictions to the desktop. And that is scary not only from a freedom point of view, but also it makes your desktop machine less useful.