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I mean Epic, Spotify, and Tinder are wrong here. Apple built the hardware, and the distribution mechanism for software on that hardware platform. Apple has been a closed ecosystem from day 1. It shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone and they all knew when they decided to create apps for iOS that they were party to a closed system where Apple are the gatekeepers. Don't like their rules? Then, don't do business on their App Store. Simple as that really.

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What happens if you are fine with those parameters, you build a business on iOS, and then apple decides that it wants to be in your business, so it makes their own competing app default and non removable? Then it adds hardware functionality to help its own software, but locks the hardware from you, so your business suffers? This is exactly the Tile example on the linked page.

If that happened to your business, would you say "well we always knew they are a closed system, time to pack up and go home"?

If you create an app in a closed ecosystem knowing full well that this is Apple's world and they can do as they please, you shouldn't be surprised when they do as they please.

This whole issue is children screaming because they broke the rules and Mommy and Daddy have put their foot down.

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