What Apple is taking away is practical control for owners of a class of device that has become essential to my practical participation in society.
I actually desire my country to intervene and change laws forcing Apple give me that control.
"Vote with your wallet" is a BS argument in such a duopoly, because people care about other stuff.
In my opinion it is perfectly fine for society to order a company to hypothetically limit you on this minor thing (and let's be frank: this is super minor), because opening up iOS would benefit companies, countries, economies and other users of phones.
Especially in the light of the only real complaint being that "there is a possibility of loss of security".
Apple have over a billion iPhones out there I believe, and your phrasing of "it's all of us vs just you" is really inappropriate - both from an argumentation perspective and probably a fact perspective too.
And the fact that people have iPhones doesn't invalidate my assertion, also it doesn't affect my right to an opinion.
No-one's saying you don't have a right to an opinion. Everyone has that right. It's bad faith to try and misrepresent what the person you're talking to is saying.
> No-one's saying you don't have a right to an opinion
Someone said to me “Who are you to claim that my consumer desires are irrelevant?” so you’re wrong.
Why would you make up something like this? What's the benefit to you?
It's legitimately easier to just buy a UMPC with an LTE card and use VOIP than do that. That's how bad the situation is at this point.
I say this as someone who gets paid to work on open source and used PostMarketOS on my primary cell phone for years. Even technical people really only have two options right now.
And of course, recommendations for LTE modules would be appreciated. Ideally built in, but external modules are also good, all they really need is linux support.
What about we meet in the middle and governments force Apple to only open 50% of the phones, for the same price. Would that satisfy you?
And I 100% guarantee that the piece of this 30% pie is way bigger than the effort it would require them to divert their development like you're suggesting.
EDIT: Oh, and I also bet their lawyer bill for fighting this is bigger than that too. :)
And if the argument has become about security, as others have said, Jailbreak has repeatedly relied on security issues, so the security problems have always been there.
But making the argument that Apple is the only company to solve secure payments on the internet is silly.
On one side it's called jailbreaking, on the other it's called rooting. It's really the same thing you're fighting against.