Color me skeptical. What will they open up? Even side-loading of apps doesn’t necessarily remove the platform vendor’s advantage in being able to control the sy

Color me skeptical. What will they open up? Even side-loading of apps doesn’t necessarily remove the platform vendor’s advantage in being able to control the system experience. For example, consider the way the app model itself has been designed: apps are standalone experiences (this is a simplification because there are some integration hooks into other parts of the system UX). I can think of several use cases where I might like a background “camera app” that monitors the system camera feed for certain objects/scene features and suggests an action when detected. It’s hard to argue that Apple should have to permit such functionality but then if the debate shifts towards what first party OS level features Apple is and is not allowed to provide, we get into undesirable regulatory overreach. Ideally the OS would be open source and replaceable but that’s a pipe dream. The reality remains that platforms are intentionally crafted to heavily favor the vendor’s services and there’s little that regulation will do to change that.