I wonder if Apple would have ended up better off if they had made iOS devices friendly to third-party OSs. Maybe a nice homebrew culture would have emerged and

I wonder if Apple would have ended up better off if they had made iOS devices friendly to third-party OSs. Maybe a nice homebrew culture would have emerged and LineageOS would have a nice set of images to install and all the geeks would have been satisfied. I know I would. But most users wouldn't bother, and it would be an all-or-nothing choice. Meanwhile they'd have quite a bit more ability to argue for their walled garden in the OS to regulators. It might still not have worked but they would have had a much better chance I think. For most users this is a much better outcome though and maybe someday Google will let me buy a Pixel phone...