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I feel like you’re being downvoted unfairly. Your perspective is valid even of some people disagree or misunderstand.
Apple’s customers bought their iPhone knowing alternative stores are not available. That’s where PWA (web apps) can come into the picture. It’s not Apple’s fault developers are choosing to ignore PWAs. Streaming video, streaming games, etc., tons of stuff can be done from a PWA. I am typing this from wefwef (now vger / Voyager, a PWA built for Lemmy.
Your perspective seems to be to ignore the very existence of anti trust rules that stand for the proposition that even if the customer knows what they're getting in a free market capitalist transaction it can be illegal.
Can't your justification of Apple be used for every anti trust case? "AT&T’s customers bought their service knowing alternative rotary dial telephones manufactured by 3rd parties are not available."
I'm not an antitrust lawyer, but I suspect the fact that Android exists makes iPhone not a monopoly.
AT&T owned the phone lines and the equipment, leading to that problem. So if Apple went and bought all of the cell service providers and said "You're only allowed to use iPhones" that would be similar, and they would probably cease to exist relatively quickly.
Apple was in support of PWAs initially and then they decided app store closed ecosystem = $$$$. PWAs are better supported on their shit mobile safari browser nowadays, but they have lacked important functionality and kept bugs in it for years; I have even seen some of these issues mentioned in Voyager's issues / PRs.
That being said if they had a more open ecosystem and chrome / Firefox with their own engines were allowed on the app store (they are on there but they use Safari's webkit because it is against app stores TOS, probably because of better PWA support from competition?)