I'm not sure why you were downvoted. This is legitimate reasoning and you are contributing to the conversation in a civilized manner. There are absolutely trad

I'm not sure why you were downvoted. This is legitimate reasoning and you are contributing to the conversation in a civilized manner. There are absolutely tradeoffs of buying into a walled garden. I personally have mixed feelings. An open ecosystem sounds nice in ways. For example, on my mac, I would be very frustrated if I were locked into only being able to buy software from Apple's App Store. It would be a deal-breaker. However, I've never really found myself frustrated with the iPhone app ecosystem. However, I've definitely been saved hours and hours of family IT support by family members being on iOS.