Apple still owns the only way for users¹ to install apps in their iphones². Moreover, many small developers will still pay apple to handle their payments³.

¹Regular users, almost all users. ²In the US, where this order applies. ³The sales volume is not enough to justify processing the payment outside the platform.

If that's a problem, they can always loosen the review process.

> This is going to save us all money. It’s a good thing for everyone but Apple.

Is it? I was forced to sign up for Disney Plus using their website last week instead of subscribing through the App Store. Now I have to use their website to cancel my subscription when I finish Andor. Maybe Disney's subscription cancelation process is easy, but how many of my subscriptions are going to dark pattern and gaslight me into thinking I don't want to cancel now?

If Apple had some kind of integration for third party devs to add subscriptions/payments into the App Store so users can cancel them or ask for refunds, and then required devs to use it without regulators getting in the way, I'd be less annoyed.

It’s good for devs. It’s worse for consumers.

People who bought an iPhone are not users, they are customers who bought a product they now own. It’s not unreasonable to expect that the customers who bought product with their own money have control over said product.

Repeating this ridiculous argument doesn’t make it any less ridiculous. Imagine if the automotive world did what Apple does, how damn pound the outcry would be today.

I own Apple products and I'm not theirs to decide what I can do, I'm free to use my hardware the way I want.