Maybe I'm wrong but my interpretation was quite different. To me he's just pointing out a fact, to me along the 20+ years since I've been aware of the issue ma

Maybe I'm wrong but my interpretation was quite different. To me he's just pointing out a fact, to me along the 20+ years since I've been aware of the issue many things happened or didn't happen but a few specific things come out of the pack, including the one he cited. To me you came out as the apple fanboy who cannot stand that apple is part of the issue and that it is undeniably apple who popularized the "app store" model, emblematic of the problem at hands. It's only after apple's success that the others followed suit and copied the model to recreate their own distinct impossible to interconnect ecosystem. Even Mozilla has one now. Yes Apple is among the GAFAM who are to blame among many others for the current state of things, but ultimately the failure is in us who chose voluntary submission to new masters, who failed to use our technical knowledge to provide to other less technically inclined, who failed to force ISP to offer the means to self host, and so on I guess this is quite an illustration of "don't argue with fools, from a distance people may not be able to tell the difference".