America itself is like a beautiful crystal straightjacket. You can make a billion dollars, but just try stabbing someone in the face.
Living with restrictions has its pros and cons. You can move to Russia, where I hear you can do anything you're physically able to do, and deal with the consequences yourself.
In this case "moving away" is actually a lot easier.
In the analogy: not everyone living in America ever chose to live there - i.e. anyone who didn't immigrate as an adult. And it's a lot of work to move. So the default is living in a situation most people didn't choose themselves, with a very high barrier to changing anything.
But in the story: the easy alternative is buying an Android instead of buying an iPhone, or developing for Android instead of developing for iPhone. They're "just" phones and literally have the same functionality and anyone can use whichever one they want. It's not even like most people get their iPhone from their employers. People chose to enter this ecosystem as consenting adults in a competitive market, and it's one small purchase of a PHONE. If you made a mistake, it's one of the easiest things to replace. It's not like a car or a house or even a laptop. It's a phone.
I simply don't see why Apple shouldn't have the right to do things exactly as they want. I choose to "live there", and so do loads of other people.
Living with restrictions has its pros and cons. You can move to Russia, where I hear you can do anything you're physically able to do, and deal with the consequences yourself.
In this case "moving away" is actually a lot easier.
In the analogy: not everyone living in America ever chose to live there - i.e. anyone who didn't immigrate as an adult. And it's a lot of work to move. So the default is living in a situation most people didn't choose themselves, with a very high barrier to changing anything.
But in the story: the easy alternative is buying an Android instead of buying an iPhone, or developing for Android instead of developing for iPhone. They're "just" phones and literally have the same functionality and anyone can use whichever one they want. It's not even like most people get their iPhone from their employers. People chose to enter this ecosystem as consenting adults in a competitive market, and it's one small purchase of a PHONE. If you made a mistake, it's one of the easiest things to replace. It's not like a car or a house or even a laptop. It's a phone.
I simply don't see why Apple shouldn't have the right to do things exactly as they want. I choose to "live there", and so do loads of other people.