>This isn't a fair comparison. Apple has a monopoly in the store of iOS devices. In Android you can authorize different stores, in Apple walled garden, you can'

>This isn't a fair comparison. Apple has a monopoly in the store of iOS devices. In Android you can authorize different stores, in Apple walled garden, you can't. I think you've gotten confused here (or didn't read the article): this is not software we're talking about, this is hardware. The physical hardware products have been pulled from the Apple Store, both online and retail, not the supporting software apps in the App Store. And Apple has no monopoly whatsoever on retail or online equivalents, Withings are still readily available at a variety of outlets and of course on all the online ones, Amazon etc. So as long as it stays like that there is no issue at all. Particularly for Apple retail stock space is extremely valuable and precious and it's perfectly reasonable (and in fact necessary) for them to pick and choose what to stock for a variety of reasons. On the other hand if at some point they extended that to the App Store as well or took any other actions whatsoever to use their artificial iOS platform technical control as a club (such as trying to make Withings devices cease to function with iOS devices) then yes, that would be really bad. Not sure whether it'd be illegal or not but it should be (although I think it should be legally required to hardware owners to be offered a root key on their devices too, but that's another discussion). At least for now though hardware stocking decisions alone are not a cause for concern.