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It’s overwhelming proof that an important segment prefers those advantages. Why should they be deprived of the benefits of the walled garden just because you do

• AnthonyMouse 6y ago
  > It’s overwhelming proof that an important segment prefers those advantages. It doesn't even prove that there are enough such people to fill a single telephone booth. They could make a billion sales and every one of them could be people who don't want to be tied to Apple's store but grin and bear it because they want iOS or Apple hardware more, or because they think Google is worse. When they don't have the choice to get one without the other, people buying both doesn't prove that they want both, only that the thing they actually want isn't a choice they have. To prove what they actually want you'd have to give them the option to have that. > Why should they be deprived of the benefits of the walled garden just because you don’t like it? Why should the people who don't want it have it forced on them? If you want Apple hardware with iOS and to buy all your apps from Apple's store, why can't you choose that without forcing all the people who don't want that into an all or nothing choice between every one of those things and not a single one of them?