The main issue with iOS isn't really so much iOS itself but the secondary effects it has over the entire industry - after all it has been very clear that Microsoft is salivating over the prospect of being Apple v2.0 and having as much control over the PC ecosystem as Apple has over the iOS ecosystem.

Are you telling me there is no “Linux of mobile devices” out there? I’m struggling to recall but I feel like there have been many much more open devices _and_ OSs our there but it turns out consumers don’t care enough about those aspects to want that.

Well, Android is technically "Linux of mobile devices", though i guess you didn't mean that :-P.

But yes, the options are too few and things can go like apples - one bad Apple can spoil the bunch.

What is in the level on apple silicon?

I don't want Apple exploiting their vendor lock-in and robbing other companies of 30% sales of a digital only product, even if it doesn't personally impact me. That is not strange or hard to understand IMHO.

>Nobody is forcing you to buy an Apple product, and there are plenty of stellar alternative products from numerous other brands.

We want to fix things (even in companies that we otherwise might like) that we think are morally unacceptable. That's how progress is made.

You can advocate your own position too, nothing wrong with both of us doing so.