> You've avoided making any argument about what value Apple is providing by forcing their ecosystem doen consumers throats & eliminating intercompatibility. You

> You've avoided making any argument about what value Apple is providing by forcing their ecosystem doen consumers throats & eliminating intercompatibility. Your whole argument is Apple can do what it wants, no matter how bad No my argument is, unless apple is harming consumers in a sepecific market, this is nothing but bullying by EU. If apple marketed to all consumers then you can say it is stifling competition but since it is a high end luxury brand competitors that can't afford its rules to have their products tested and validated after a fee are not competing in the same market as apple. The entire purpose of the brand and product is to be exclusive. You people are saying exclusivity has no place in any market. Instead of competing fairly like android does you force apple and apple consumers to tolerate a marker they don't want to be part of. A lot of arguments make sense if there weren't already like a million android skus from various vendors for you to choose from. It's like you prefer apple but you want to tell apple how to run its business so it becomes like android, just be fair and use android. > Using fear like this is a broadly political tactic, is an argument towards a conservative outlook. This has nothing to do with politics. I used android for ages, I finally have a real usable phone and shitty policies and fanatical people like you are trying to take that away and make everything as shitty as everything else. I pay apple whatever it wants to keep the quality and exclusivity. You very well knoe plenty of android phones have better specs and are more open, I choose an inferior spec iphone precisely because it is closed source and the interface both in hardware and software are consistent and reliable and pleasant! > And it just feels unhinged, detached, & not reperesentative of the actual world. You can have your opinions and needs and I can have mine. I won't take away your choices from you so don't take away my one and only choice.