> "does making money on the hardware justify allowing other developers to benefit from your software updates and APIs without paying you?" Well the phone belo

> "does making money on the hardware justify allowing other developers to benefit from your software updates and APIs without paying you?" Well the phone belongs to the user. So yes the user should be able to do whatever they want with their own device, including installing other app stores. So anything at all, that you were talking about, about Apple being "owed" anything, just doesnt matter. Lets just ignore Apple being owed anything, because they sold the device and it now belongs to the user. > turns their phone into a console We can worry about the console market once it is a 2 company duopoly, worth trillions of dollars. It is perfectly fine to care more about the phone market, simply because it is larger, more pervasive, and more market centralized. Also, thats whataboutism. Maybe there are problems with the console industry. But regardless of that, it should not stop us from taking action on the much larger phone industry. We can prioritize our actions, to the markets that are the most important, even if you think that other, smaller markets have issues.