What Apple offers is Apple's vision of how they want the products they sell to work. You might not agree with Apple, but that's fine because alternative products are available.
Whereas Microsoft was using their operating system monopoly power to mandate how other companies' products could be configured prior to sale to customers.
(This distinction is why—in my opinion—Google is in more trouble against Epic than Apple. Because unlike Apple, Google has strong leverage over how other companies' Android devices can work.)
Whereas Microsoft was using their operating system monopoly power to mandate how other companies' products could be configured prior to sale to customers.
(This distinction is why—in my opinion—Google is in more trouble against Epic than Apple. Because unlike Apple, Google has strong leverage over how other companies' Android devices can work.)