Thank god Android scares them. I can only imagine what they'd dare without any competition.
tl;dr: "[Apple] owns the ground you’re building on, and if they decide they don’t like you, or they can do something better with the ground, you’re toast." In this case, if they decide the rent covers your garden plot as well as the fields, you ante up or die.
"Apple owns a very fertile piece of soil. You can grow 10x the crop there that you can grown any where else."
And they can change your rent to 11x normal - just before you sell your crops...
"Where do you want to farm your crop ?"
Go question but it is actually a real question, not a rhetorical question... Do you want to a golden share cropper or do you want to be independent. There may be no easy answer...
I don't remember anything evil during the height of the iPod era.
What’s seen as evil here is really a preference for the user over the content provider, and it’s the content providers who are whining about not getting everything their way.
You never hear any users complaining about subscription plans not automatically giving away their information.
The entire model of iOS is a node that downloads from several sources, which 3-rd party content providers are calling foul about. The platform is effectively binary: it either works or it doesnt, out of the box. There aren't any drivers or codecs to install.
If you don't like it, build your service for some other platform. I hear there's one that's got more marketshare.
What makes you think that's what they're doing? It could also be that they never intended for their platform to be used this way but didn't explicitly deny it because they didn't see this coming. I don't have any way of knowing that is the case, but I don't think you have anyway of knowing your opinion is right either.
Evidence?