Or, looking at it another way, it will not cause Apple's loyal customers to switch to a competitor, but it might attract potential new customers.

Why do there need to be new customers? If you didn't like the product before, you can look elsewhere (or look within). Seems pretty messed up to ruin the experience for those who have been enjoying the products as is for years.

How would opening up the API and payment system ruin the product? I want to buy audible books from the audible app on my phone but I can’t do that. I want to subscribe to Netflix from my phone but I can’t.

Seems to me that opening this stuff up would make our phones better, not worse.

Ah, yes, if only Apple Computer could have borrowed the wisdom of the famously prescient and tech literate European Union, it might have seen its way to these changes and new customers alone.

We live in a society. People who don't do business with a company nevertheless get a say in how that company does business.

It will be better for me, a long time customer, what now?

The status quo remains.

> It will be worse for me, a long time customer, at the benefit of you, possibly not even a customer?

It wouldn't necessarily make things worse for you though.

By the time we'll find out it will be too late. I'm not interested in finding out.