Back in the day MSFT bolted IE into the operating system to a greater degree than Apple has done with Safari - a ton of the DLL's relied on IE for a lot of UI c

Back in the day MSFT bolted IE into the operating system to a greater degree than Apple has done with Safari - a ton of the DLL's relied on IE for a lot of UI components and IE had ActiveX that literally hosted executable content in a browser window. It's almost like they hung out a sign on every PC and Windows server that said "please p0wn this machine" and lots of the bad actors in the world came knocking. They didn't take security seriously when they were laying down the architecture for Windows because they didn't think they had to. Apple is taking the exact opposite approach. They're fairly obsessed with security and privacy because that's one of the big selling points for the whole iOS ecosystem. They miss things because they (like us) live in the real world but they do pay a lot of attention to it and the number of updates for things like 0day defects that arrive within days of the defects being reported tells me that this continues to this day. Apple doesn't have a monopoly. Per https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide Android has twice the market share that iOS has. The reason for all of this generated drama is found in https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/ https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/. The key bullet points are: "App Revenue Key Statistics * Mobile ad spend in 2022 reached $362 billion, a 7.7% increase on the previous year * Android and iOS app consumer spending increased to $135 billion in 2023 * iOS was responsible for 66% of app consumer spending in 2023 * Games accounted for 60% of consumer app spending in 2023. Google Play contributed 41% of the total amount * Subscription revenues increased to $45.6 billion in 2023, iOS was responsible for 76% of that revenue" The real reason for all this foolishness can be found in these bullet points. 66% of $135 billion is $89.1 billion, and lots of people would love to get a piece of that pie without dealing with Apple (who built and owns the stack). It isn't a monopoly, though, and all of that monopoly talk is misdirection.