Except this model is for third parties to provide user products on a solid OS foundation. Apple cripples their OS in multiple ways to make developing for it har

Except this model is for third parties to provide user products on a solid OS foundation. Apple cripples their OS in multiple ways to make developing for it harder artificially, necessitating third parties to do the work to make the platform usable for developers. That is Apples failure as a platform maker, but they don't get any ire for it because respectively their hardware is good and their phone platform cannot be ignored when developing for mobile.