> If no one complained about this I wouldn't know about it.

For real?

Well, yeah. I'm not sure how you'd find out about this otherwise? Unless you think there's some arbitrary line where "proper journalists" are allowed to talk about things, but regular people aren't.

If the only information I could ever get about products was positive marketing from the creators of said products I don't understand how I could possibly navigate purchasing decisions as a consumer. Open public discourse about the pros and cons of various products is crucial to a functioning market.

Obviously if you already own an Apple device maybe you read announcements on their support portal, but that doesn't really help (it is great that Apple announce this stuff though).

I meant this specific thing. And many other specific things. Not that their ecosystem is closed.

I mean, it’s right in their name.