Apple shouldn’t be interfering with other businesses and their users like this. It’s sad to see people here celebrating their inability to run unapproved software.
This also has nothing to do with unapproved software. The idea that a user can actually delete their data from your servers should not be a controversial topic. But of course it is for businesses and developers, which is why Apple has to make a policy like this.
As a user I am very happy with this.
50+% of Americans for everything they do, say, buy, etc.
This is a monopoly by sheer volume and scale of their reach.
Businesses will continue to complain but this protects the user.
You're not going to find support in a forum with 60+% Apple users. A lot of these people work for or have stock in this company.
They don't see how this is a roadblock to competition and that this device is now in the critical path of 50+% of commerce. (Maybe they'll care more when they have to compete.)
You wouldn't happen to work or have stock in a company negatively impacted by this change?
I don't have any interest in apple and don't use their products, but I'm really struggling to see how preventing the scummy strat of making sign up easy but deletion/deactivation difficult is some how a 'roadblock to competition'.
You're gonna have to make a much stronger argument to get any traction.