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The quality isn’t really the issue, it’s when the company

  • prevents competing apps from being installed
  • prevents devices from other manufacturers from using your apps (or intentionally degrading services on other devices)
  • making it hard to use files/media outside the proprietary apps (ex. iTunes in the past, and maybe still now)

This issue isn’t limited to Apple, but Apple is the well known example for locking people into an ecosystem whether they like it or not

Do you have an example of them rejecting a quality product from being used in their phones?

Another big example is any web-browser that isn’t safari. That should be changing soon/recently (see here https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-browser-engines-eu) but that’s only because Apple was forced to.

Each developer will have to be authorized by Apple to switch engines “after meeting specific criteria and committing to a number of ongoing privacy and security mitigations,”

Now they can babysit other browsers and make sure they’re secure too, ig. Might as well throw that responsibility on the trillion dollar company. At least the browsers will end up more secure once the apple security team audits them.

You were already provided with examples in this comment thread:

Non-apple watches, for instance, can’t use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitation

Which manufacturers and which products?

Literally everything that’s not manufactured and sold by Apple.

Pick one and post the issue then.

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