Apple Village sounds quaint. We're talking about a company whose customer base would make it the third largest country in the world, ahead of the United States. This is a corporation that has declared its own national borders and instituted an unelected customs enforcement agency.
"If you don't like it then leave." Is that supposed to be a real solution? What if you have just as many issues with the other remaining superpower?
Competition is supposed to be constraining abuse. That doesn't work if to compete on apps you have to be able to develop your own phone platform and convince your entire app customer base to switch to it.
It’s not a country. It hasn’t declared anything, and follows all laws its subject to.
If you don’t like it, buy something else. Don’t expect the platform to be made worse to fit your specific needs, when they clearly don’t match up to the overwhelming choices of customers.
You keep saying "overwhelming choices of customers" when the entire point is that customers are being deprived of choices by being required to make them all together at once.
If you want Apple hardware or iOS but not their app store, it's not available. If your whole family uses iMessage then you need an iPhone even if you don't want any of the rest of it. The fact that many people then buy an iPhone and use the App Store regardless is not evidence that they want it this way, it's the harm that forcing it to be this way is inflicting on them.
It’s overwhelming proof that an important segment prefers those advantages. Why should they be deprived of the benefits of the walled garden just because you don’t like it?
> It’s overwhelming proof that an important segment prefers those advantages.
It doesn't even prove that there are enough such people to fill a single telephone booth. They could make a billion sales and every one of them could be people who don't want to be tied to Apple's store but grin and bear it because they want iOS or Apple hardware more, or because they think Google is worse.
When they don't have the choice to get one without the other, people buying both doesn't prove that they want both, only that the thing they actually want isn't a choice they have. To prove what they actually want you'd have to give them the option to have that.
> Why should they be deprived of the benefits of the walled garden just because you don’t like it?
Why should the people who don't want it have it forced on them?
If you want Apple hardware with iOS and to buy all your apps from Apple's store, why can't you choose that without forcing all the people who don't want that into an all or nothing choice between every one of those things and not a single one of them?
"If you don't like it then leave." Is that supposed to be a real solution? What if you have just as many issues with the other remaining superpower?
Competition is supposed to be constraining abuse. That doesn't work if to compete on apps you have to be able to develop your own phone platform and convince your entire app customer base to switch to it.