I give Apple a good amount of my personal money every year precisely because Apple works well with Apple, and because when you switch on all the features like A

I give Apple a good amount of my personal money every year precisely because Apple works well with Apple, and because when you switch on all the features like Advanced Data Protection and Lockdown Mode their vertical integration across hardware, software and services gives them a strong security story. I have Signal and WhatsApp for talking to people on other platforms, and I’m personally fine with Apple maintaining strong control over iMessage and introducing things like Contact Key Verification [1] to further enhance security within that closed system (things like Signal have alternatives to this, too!). That is to say: there’s plenty of competition in cross-platform messaging already, this is good, many of those alternatives have hundreds of millions of users. We’re really not at the point where we need regulators to step in and force Apple to open up iMessage! [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213465 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213465 You are obviously free to spend your dollars as you wish, but don’t conflate the lack of interoperability with Android as “making the life of its own customers miserable”, it’s really the opposite: everything Apple works well with Apple and that’s a real upgrade for me and likely others over the piecemeal, fragmented, and harder to secure ecosystem that is Android. Your opinions likely do vary to my own and that’s why it’s good there are options and competition.