Samsung phones come with a Samsung store in addition to Google Play for instance. All of Samsungs software go through their own store, and they also sell apps on it.

So instead of "opening up" the iPhone if customers really care about the multiple app stores feature they could buy the phone with that feature correct?

It's not really any different in my mind than phones with more battery life, a better camera, or any other product mix.

In general I agree with you, I don't want my phone to be a general purpose computer.

But the situation here is that there is now an actual law mandating that no, you're not to allowed host an app store on your phone OS without allowing alternative app stores.

For an exaggerated analogy, you can't make a car without seatbelts and tell consumers that if they value safety they should purchase a different brand of car.

>>I don't want my phone to be a general purpose computer.

Too late. It already is. Which makes all these restrictions on what you can and can't do with it stupid especially if its gonna sell for an amount of money nearly equal to reasonably spec'ed laptop.

Every single child who plays Fortnite in Android does it. You can't install Fortnite through the Play Store anymore after the payment processing lawsuit stuff.