> I think you have a reason for defending Apple.

Guilty as charged. My parents had a Windows laptop and all sorts of evil shit was "sideloaded", and when I started reformatting it, some indian 'microsoft tech support' guy was actually screaming at them through the speakers. This is what happens in your world.

I bought them an iPad (and another) and it's now been almost 15 years with zero tech support calls, zero problems, zero scammers. That is fucking great for me. Money well spent. So yeah, I wish you guys could just buy a free software phone with no ABI and go away to recompile your software. But it is fucking terrible idea on a societal level.