It's almost as absurd as a telephone company letting a competing telephone company route phone calls over THEIR wires to THEIR customers, isn't it?

Yeah. Especially for free without peering charges like the ones ISPs charge so you can get internet

Remember the days when you had to pay per text message?

https://www.fcc.gov/general/tariffs-0

> Have you ever heard of an independent car repair shop being allowed access to the manufacturer’s factory floor ?

Car manufacturers used to publish detailed (technical) manuals for all of their cars exactly so mechanics (owners, repair shops, etc) could work on their vehicles.

In modern times though, manufacturers seem to be DRM-ing (and similar) as much as they can in order to capture the repair business for themselves. It's not a good look. :(

While we're at it, let's outlaw web search as well. Clearly, those indexing bots are not paying customers.

If a niche enthusiast crowd worth of traffic will absolutely obliterate the underlying infrastructure, allow unchecked flows of spam and undermine the security posture, maybe Apple should just leave it to the telcos who might be marginally more competent.

The irony of indexing being Google does not want to be index by others and prohibits scraping in their ToS