1. most Android phones I've seen let you install other app stores. the OS is built to support running additional app-stores. it takes a manufacturer being cruel to mess this liberty up on Android.
2. i can run other browsers on Android. iOS does not allow any form of competing web technology to exist on their platform. iOS makes everyone showing web content use Safari. on Android, i can use Google's app store to load other browsers which are free to support different sets of online technologies. on Apple's platforms, i will always be restricted in connecting to others with whatever means Apple affords me in their Safari browser.
of the two entities, i only see one company engaged in outright anti-competitive behaviors. i would like to see both reduced in presence & dominance, yet i myself also often use Google's Play Store on my Android devices, and only occasionally reach out to the alternatives like F-droid. but i know, i expect & i do use these fallback stores on Android. and i do run other browsers. i would never considering buying an anti-consumer anti-competitive device like an Apple product, because sometimes good software does have a hard time making it through the gauntlet of approval & i do not want that constraint. i would not consider buying an anti-consumer anti-competitve device like an Apple product, because sometimes there are interesting new web & online standards & protocols & forever being limited to what Safari does is incredibly constraining. i would like to use Play Store less, but i am glad that the ecosystem it's built upon does not deliberately exclude all alternatives.
1. most Android phones I've seen let you install other app stores. the OS is built to support running additional app-stores. it takes a manufacturer being cruel to mess this liberty up on Android.
2. i can run other browsers on Android. iOS does not allow any form of competing web technology to exist on their platform. iOS makes everyone showing web content use Safari. on Android, i can use Google's app store to load other browsers which are free to support different sets of online technologies. on Apple's platforms, i will always be restricted in connecting to others with whatever means Apple affords me in their Safari browser.
of the two entities, i only see one company engaged in outright anti-competitive behaviors. i would like to see both reduced in presence & dominance, yet i myself also often use Google's Play Store on my Android devices, and only occasionally reach out to the alternatives like F-droid. but i know, i expect & i do use these fallback stores on Android. and i do run other browsers. i would never considering buying an anti-consumer anti-competitive device like an Apple product, because sometimes good software does have a hard time making it through the gauntlet of approval & i do not want that constraint. i would not consider buying an anti-consumer anti-competitve device like an Apple product, because sometimes there are interesting new web & online standards & protocols & forever being limited to what Safari does is incredibly constraining. i would like to use Play Store less, but i am glad that the ecosystem it's built upon does not deliberately exclude all alternatives.