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I don't think anyone here considers Apple's abuse of private APIs vs developers an ok thing. I will never subject myself to their app store if I can help it.

I'm fairly sure a number of App Store developers browse Hacker News.

Many of us frequently subject ourselves to all kinds of abuse that we don't consider an ok thing.

It's shameful but eh, it's a living.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyxJ7GKGFG0

I think it's more a case of people just being unaware. They might have an idea that this is going on, but because they've never run into it it's not something that's a priority. I'd even wager that the vast majority of non-Americans here don't use Apple hardware.

This is a straw man argument. Who is making that point?

In general, I find the opinions on these things to be pretty consistent: the “free market” types tend to support Apple/MS - usually with some form of “its their platform” as an argument - and the FOSS types holding the opposite position.

Walled gardens weren't as normalized then.