This is what the article concludes as well and why the final summary paragraph phrases it as "forced to (allegedly) support the ecosystem". The article never re

This is what the article concludes as well and why the final summary paragraph phrases it as "forced to (allegedly) support the ecosystem". The article never really fully agrees that's the case, it's just making an argument that even in a world it is for financing the infrastructure, as Apple likes to claim in court, the system still makes no sense for completely unrelated reasons anyways.