I do expect they will be forced to make at least sideloading possible
> If I were running a business, why would I care about the low margin, no profit commodity PC or Android market.
nobody expects businessmen to be decent human beings, nobody expects that from a US company, but Prada, for example, can't force you to wear Prada shoes if you bought a Prada dress.
If you wanna buy Gucci shoes, you don't have to go through the Prada store that charges you 30% just because you can't escape it.
What the majority of the people here are saying is that Apple margins are artificial and built on having an unescapable walled garden
It is like luring people in a Mall and closing the doors
Of course they are going to buy only from shops inside the Mall, but what if they could go shopping somewhere else?
Why is Apple so afraid of it?
If their product is superior, people will buy it anyway.
Right?
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Of course there is more to it
Apple bluetooth profile has been for years not compatible with device to device transfer (I don knwow about the newer models)
Apple messaging platforms can't be made interoperable with Android because Apple does not want to.
Apple does not permit to advertise in apps different ways of creating an account on third party services, which obviously gives an unfair advantage to Apple, if you are Spotify and can't tell people how to create an account outside of the iOS is one thing, but if you are a news outlet and can't advertise your website (where you collect ads or advertise different payment profiles) that's really hindering publishers and user's rights (it costs more to buy NY Times subscription from the iOS app - to cover the Apple cut on it - and there is only one option available while there are more on their website)
Ny Times can maybe handle it, but what about smaller companies/publishers?
Apple thinks that if the app doesn't work user would think it's s device problem, but if buying things from apple store costs more, users will think that publishers are to blame, and publishers are usually not worth 2 trillions and can't afford the bad PR the same way Apple can.