Apple's app store monopoly has serious effects on small businesses through their 30% cut of all profits. End users also suffer higher prices because of this "Apple tax".
Also, if you own an iPhone, you should be able to install whatever software you want to on the device, full stop. The idea that there is an unavoidable, artificially imposed chokepoint that software MUST funnel through is ridiculous.
Apple does not gatekeep the entities you are referencing out of a sense of social responsibility, they do it because of greed.
The claim that apple is a monopoly is a bad joke based on any standard measure of a monopoly. My trash service is a monopoly, apple is not.
Apple charges high fees instead of monetizing in other ways. Don't like it, go elsewhere.
That artificial choke point (and the corresponding consumer effects) are what has DRAWN folks to Apple. Apps could slurp up your contacts on Android forever. Going through the Apple "chokepoint" that was a no go - the OS throws a prompt up you would have to approve, and the need for that sharing gets looked at.
Don't like it? No one is forcing anyone to buy apple, they have a relatively small market share. For those who value all this, they can (and it turns out folks with money DO value this because they don't want the hassles they get with others").
And yes, Apple has blocked carriers from pre-installing their bloatware and crapware. Again, if you want that, go get it somewhere else.
Also, if you own an iPhone, you should be able to install whatever software you want to on the device, full stop. The idea that there is an unavoidable, artificially imposed chokepoint that software MUST funnel through is ridiculous.
Apple does not gatekeep the entities you are referencing out of a sense of social responsibility, they do it because of greed.