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Comment by FredPret | Hacker News Reader

How dare Apple sell me exactly what I want: an integrated computing environment

The problem is that other manufacturers can’t create headphones that integrate on the same level because those protocols are exclusive only to devices manufactured by Apple

Other manufacturers don't seem interested. There's nothing stopping Samsung from creating an open ecosystem based on their hardware, but I don't see them making a serious effort to do so.

Apple are free to do that, and so should other manufactures. There is no reason, technical or otherwise, that the APIs used for Airpods should be exclusive.

What I want: the ability to integrate tooling I roll myself or find on the internet just as easily as apples often slopware.

But then the logical solution is to not buy Apple? I like the garden walls. If you don't like them, find your own garden, don't shake your fist at my walls.

Macos already operates like this. Works out of the box and has the safe shiny mac app store for the normies but still offers a full unix experience for people who know what they are doing. And the sky doesn’t fall. In fact I had this with my iphone when I had it jailbroken until I got too version locked.

Sure, we'll all just go ahead and build the third walled garden with all the billions we have lying around. This "just don't buy Apple then" argument is disingenuous and I'm tired of hearing it.

Apple et al. want the benefits of being utilities without the regulations that go with it. If my _bank_ requires me to use one of two OSs, the corporations that control them can not claim all the freedoms private companies do.

Take it up with your bank. That's a legitimate issue. But the last thing Apple wants is to be a commoditized utility and it's hardly their fault if your bank does this.

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