Never attribute to malice what can just as easily be attributed to incompetence (or convenient indifference, as the case may be).

Yeah sure. I suppose you’d also say that it’s simply incompetence that Apple refuses to open Google Maps, the most widely used map app, when I click on a link to somebody’s address in my contacts app. Oh and it just so happens that I can’t replace the Contacts app either.

It’s nothing less than pure spiteful pettiness.

And we'll never know which it was... Which is the deeper point.