I have no hope that the solution can be solved through lawfare. The ability of one company to control what the vast majority of people can do with their phones is unacceptable, regardless of what happens with this one app.

Indeed. Web app, SMS, Signal, etc. Have to decouple from centralized systems.

The vast majority of the people on this planet have never touched an iphone. Android dominates basically everywhere outside north america and, interestingly, the DPRK.

Google does the same with the rest of the population, don't they? The methods are different, but the results are the same.

They make some policies, restrictions and changes to their revenue confiscation schemes in lockstep with Apple, or they lag behind them by some years.

But yes, eventually the results are the same: the frog gets boiled.

Except the phones that aren't useing googles app store, such as many Chinese phones and grapheneos users.

I lost--not on the facts, or even on the relevant law, and not even in the district court where we were being heard, but in appeals on a narrow technicality of statute of limitations that we bet our case on (I am explicit about this as Apple didn't "win", so much as "we failed"; I even feel like our case just wasn't argued very well once we got to that level, which hurts)--over a year and a half ago... so, never :(.

Sorry to hear it, that's the justice system for you.

IMO, you're in a unique position where you can make your case to the public, not only is it intensely relevant now, but people will listen to you. Your name/brand carries good will for many.

Even a blog post that can be shared would be valuable. If that's something you'd be interested in, of course.