Apple currently sees this as a competitive advantage but it's only a matter of time before these anti-consumer practices like locking down iMessage, high app st

Apple currently sees this as a competitive advantage but it's only a matter of time before these anti-consumer practices like locking down iMessage, high app store fees, not supporting right to repair, and planned obsolescence come to bite them in the back. Allowing everyone to use Facetime is just the first sign of this. Probably because they realized that very few people were using Facetime if they couldn't chat with non-Apple friends.