I appreciate these thoughts being written down and these points definitely need to be addressed. I think one of the big problems is not that phones etc are app

I appreciate these thoughts being written down and these points definitely need to be addressed. I think one of the big problems is not that phones etc are appliances but that everything company is trying to turn their offerings into an appliance (and alternatives becoming more and more niche), and at the same time alternatives are just not allowed to be on the same footing. In some places you need either an Android (Google Android that is) or an iPhone to partake in some services (commercial or otherwise). Very often it feels penalizing to refuse to use either of those, or you lose out in quality of life or available services as a result. This isn’t good.