not sure what you're talking about but... again, Apple doesn't want you to decide with your money, once you've bought an iPhone.
You have two weeks to return the phone if you don’t like the way the phone operates, the vertical integration etc.
"I don't have a problem so the problem doesn't exist"
“I have a problem and therefore it’s a universal problem.”
You're asked what browser you want to use, you can be asked what backup service you want to use if Apple think it's almost mandatory.
Does Microsoft ask to install google cloud? iCloud works seamlessly with apple hardware and software. But you are under no obligation to use it.
Apple finding petty excuses to prevent competition.
Why should they enable an alternate cloud provider?
There's been only Safari for a long time, then just Safari-based browsers. For money. Apple took money from Google to make them the standard browser.
Yeah, good for apple.
Which ultimately pushed more people who didn't know better to just give their data to one of the most data-greedy companies on Earth.
If google didn’t pay money to apple, are you saying there would be no private data charging hands? I find that difficult to believe.
So it turned out that Apple was just using privacy as a marketing tool for those who care.
For those who don’t care their data isn’t private? Not sure what you are saying.
Lightning cables. It was cool that it was reversible, then it's been vastly surpassed by USB C.
Not really. Of course that is my subjective opinion. I would be happy with lightning, but now I have no choice.
Apple didn't want their customers to get a better cable (or to buy less cables, you know, for the environment they pretend they love so much),
The amount of pretend is negligible. The amount of actual work is more than most companies.
they just wanted to upsell proprietary accessories.
That are better than most accessories.
You still can't set other maps apps as default, other than Apple Maps.
On my phone I have Waze and google maps. Equally usable in CarPlay.
And, boy, I could spend hours talking about repairing your iPhone.
They've used ALL the tricks they could to prevent third party repair. I know, I used to do that for a living.
Are you talking years ago or today?
So, let's say you decided with your hard-earned $$$ that the iPhone 7 is the best phone. Congrats! Just when warranty expires, it comes out that it had an engineering problem that made the audio chip fail. Your phone is no longer a phone. Apples wants hundred of dollars to replace the motherboard,
Which I got for free.
third party repairmen want a third of that to fix the motherboard. Thank God there's competition!
Of course. Thankfully there is competition.
Even if a chip is broken, it can be swapped.
...but when that happens to the CPU, it can't be swapped. For security reasons. Fine. Same for the SSD. For security reasons. Alright. And the modem. Mmm... security? Wi-Fi... security again? The display too. Ok, maybe "security" meant "money" all along.
Think of a car with electronics that don't allow the engine to start if you bought wheels made by another manufacturer.
Think of a car that allows the engine to start even if the security chip says everything is okay.
If you don't see a pattern here (we sell phones, we should be the only ones to sell anything that's related to that phone, no matter how much better the competition could be)...
The pattern is apples vertically integrated system is envious. For those who don’t like it there is composition as you noted.
As a general comment the lawsuits are getting more and more creative. A feature is turning into a sueable offense.
