Well, people can have laptops, or "unsupported" phones (i.e. non-iPhone/Android). Locking all sorts of basic stuff to two for-profit closed platforms sounds ra

Well, people can have laptops, or "unsupported" phones (i.e. non-iPhone/Android). Locking all sorts of basic stuff to two for-profit closed platforms sounds rather non-ideal to me. It's also quite a shift from stuff being web-based, where in principle you or I could sit down and write a compatible browser and/or port an existing browser (some work, but very doable). It's not all that different from locking everything to Windows and/or Internet Explorer like it was 20 years ago, except worse because it's so much more pervasive now. The old "mandatory Microsoft tax" got replaced with a "mandatory Google/Apple tax". Any startup has basically zero chance of entering the market.