Not a single person is surprised.
The reality is that Apple has been anti consumer and anti developer for 20 years. I was selling apple gear, and can practically pinpoint the moment they started screwing everyone
Think Google is any different? Bets that they’re next.
They actually are.
- Android allows people to bypass their store as an example, and their APIs are a lot more permissive. It’s also a mostly open OS (except some parts)
- It doesn’t matter what you think about Google, remember, Apple gets paid millions / billions to make them the default search engine. So they’re at least as bad
- Remember Pebble? Apple abused their app store to kill them off
- Apple doesn’t treat their resellers particularly well.
- Microsoft bailed them out, and then they repaid them, but sh**talking them.
- They don’t treat developers particularly well either. Apple actively uses their monopoly to compete against other developers, and even screws subscription services
- Apple deceived customers to win business. I used to sell them, and their Mac Vs PC ads accomplished what they’d hoped. Every new customer walked in and thought Mac’s can’t get viruses and won’t crash. Here in Australia, they should have been sued
- You can even develop Android and Chrome apps without any Google hardware. Apple however, that’s not an option.
- Apple even forced developers to use their Apple ID thing.
- Apple doesn’t sell your details. However, it’s almost impossible to use their hardware without providing them, and they even forced their resellers to meet targets whilst actively competing against them (using the harvested details)
They’re literally NOTHING alike. Apple literally treats everyone like crap, but sugar coats it. The only real bad thing you could say about Google is privacy related honestly (and the fact they keep killing their own projects).
In fact, name any type of Apple user who they treat well?
I use a Mac Studio, and I’d love to work at Apple simply to help improve things on the inside. The crazy thing is that the problem isn’t the Apple developers, but select people in their team