>Because, perhaps, the main one of those "other browsers" is widely considered to be a surveillance tool first, browser second

This argument falls over when the most popular apps on their store are YouTube, Google Maps, Instagram and TikTok.

They’re fine with “surveillance tools” if they get a cut.

Apple does not "get a cut" of any of those free applications.

Unless you consider the minimal $100 / year that Google has to pay to be "a cut".

Do they not get a cut of advertising?

No, they do not. They only get advertising for ads that are shown in some applications (App Store, Apple News, one or two others).

That's weird I mean it's still their platform and tooling they're using to make money by the logic of requiring subs and purchases to be taxed.

Definitely should be getting a cut of the ads too.

Just for my own clarity, are you saying that the Apple telephone is not used for surveillance? Even by Apple?

And that's why users have to prevented from installing all of those other browsers?

> And that's why users have to prevented from installing all of those other browsers?

...yes? Who are people going to complain to when ANOther browser leaks their PII from an iPhone? Who will get the bad PR? It won't be ANOther browser because lord knows they've been getting away with it for years with little to no consequence. Why would Apple put themselves - and their customers given their marketing claims to care about their privacy - in a position where that privacy can a) be compromised and b) reflect badly on Apple?