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It's not against the law to create a better and more profitable business.


It's not, it just means when they say they "need to", they lie.


Better business for a specific company doesn't mean better markets for consumers and other participants, and we make laws to ensure the latter even if it's at the expense of the former.


It should be against the law to create they kind of business they have, though


go ahead and make the law then. until then it isn't



Why? Android has 72% of the market in 2025. As an individual company Apple has 20% of the market. Samsung has 19%.

Just don't buy an iphone and move on with your life.


I still wish to sell to users of iOS.

Apple has conveniently, for them, set themselves up as an unwanted middleman.

This is only possible for them to do because they make billions per quarter and I’m a struggling solo developer.

I can’t believe people are defending apple.


> Apple has conveniently, for them, set themselves up as an unwanted middleman.

I don't see users complaining, it's mostly developers.


What’s your point?

You don’t think users wouldn’t prefer to pay less for their software?

Do you think most users have given this a thought? Do you think they are even aware of the issue?


Google is also listening though. They are slowly introducing similar restrictions after seeing what absurdity Apple gets away with as "compliance" of needing to also allow anyone to offer software for iOS. Our mistake is thinking it's fine that apple believers get vendor lock-in because there is still Google and Android lets you run whatever code you want. Yeah, until it doesn't


Why do you want huge companies to be allowed so much control?

What is it about letting them restrict what people can do in order to squeeze even more money out of them and other companies that appeals to you so much?

Where do you think this should stop?

Should my wifi router be allowed to only work with some brands of phone or laptop?

Should my mobile service provider be allowed to ask for a percentage of any payment I use over their connection?

Should my car by allowed to refuse to park if the owner of the car park doesn't share ticket revenue with its manufacturer?

If not, why not?

Personally, I choose to believe that just like some things cannot legally be agreed to contractually (even if they're in the contract and you sign it), some business models should also be unacceptable to society. That includes any situation where by owning a platform, media property, or content/service delivery technology or provider, a company wants to force itself as a middleman between any two parties.


Companies can't simply do that.

In fact, you will have a guarantee of failure if e.g. your messaging app doesn't support iOS


If companies had a product people cared enough about, people would stop buying iPhones.


well, they seldomly do, which is exactly why companies are forced to it




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