Personally, I agree that it has negative impact for global business strategies, if everyone follows it. If Apple success, why not them? But then choices are red

Personally, I agree that it has negative impact for global business strategies, if everyone follows it. If Apple success, why not them? But then choices are reduced and global state is getting worse. But I also understand very well, why Apple has made changes. > Apple is a leader and has proven that extreme authoritarian and lockdown works and few people will complain. This is the major reason. We are in minority here in the HN. The most of the world is happily using their phones, and for that the business is based on. It is not that exploitative as it could be, but there is danger for that. If the App store fulfills their needs and payment is easy, people are happy. Only tech people care something more. > For example the removal of a headphone jack, after which basically all Android makers (even OnePlus) followed suit. This is quite natural evolution. If you look at the size from the chip this jack requires, it is natural thing to remove, at least if you want to make phone thinner and replace that portion from the chip with something else. You can use adapter anyway to continue using the jack. Charging is the only problem, unless you buy adapter which allows plugging the charger at the same time. > apple because the hardware is nice Until Apple made its in-house chips, it was far away from Android hardware, in terms of chips and screens. People used to select iPhone for the software and usability alone.