(1) Apple "forces" third party retailers (AT&T, Best Buy, etc.) to sell iPhones that can't include alternative app stores.
Apple "forces" third party retailers (AT&T, Best Buy, etc.) to sell iPhones that can't include alternative browser engines.
(2) Apple "forces" all browser companies that want to use iOS to use the WebKit browser engine instead of Blink/Chromium or another option.
(3) On top of all that, Apple has gone further and even restricts end users from using alternative app stores, alternative browser engines, etc. on iOS. Microsoft didn't/doesn't put those restrictions on Windows end users.
(4) Apple (with iOS) and Google (with Android) have dominant positions as part of a duopoly in mobile OS and can/should be subject to antitrust laws and regulations.
1. Is Target allowed to switch out pieces in a box of Legos? You mentioned resellers, not the same as forcing an OEM how their hardware works. By the way, OEM, is Original Equipment Manufacturer... Dell, HP, GateWay, Lenovo, etc.
2. Webkit is an open source engine... anyone and everyone is free to develop it.
3. Apple's sells you a device. It works a certain way. You don't like that device you return it and get something else. Back in the 90's when Microsoft did all this, there really wasn't another choice unless you wanted to buy a product that was incompatible with what everyone else was using (aka
monopoly). If you don't like your Apple device, your alternatives are
more compatible with everything else on the planet.
4. Duopoly... iOS 20%/ Android 80% You really think it's fair to hold them to the same standards? What if that duopoly is, I don't know, 10% / 90%... should those two companies be treated the same? That's the desktop market Mac / Windows.
This is more ridiculous when you think that of all the possibly 100's of other OEMs in the world only Apple can create and maintain a viable alternative platform? This is not Apple's problem. This mess is because Google gave away Android for free and OEMs flocked to it, ditching every other licensable OS and creating this duopoly. So yeah, let's just keep adding restrictions to Apple, maybe they'll go away and we'll be left with a single Android monopoly.