If Apple opens up iPadOS and iOS everywhere like it has in EU. Will you go back to using BlackBerry?
If they are forced to open it up then aas a consumer I would consider my options and decide whether to stay ot go.
As long as the “new” features can be disabled then I’ll probably stay Apple.
But I buy into the walled garden and protection that offers (and yes I get things slip through etc but it’s still miles agead of Android) so if an open system is forced on me then I will look at my options then but it certainly won’t be what I want or bought into.
Where is my choice not to have this forced on me if it comes to that? How is that more choice for consumers?
If people don’t like the walled garden then go just somewhere else. There are other options for you. You know what you are getting when you buy Apple. It isn’t kept secret. I genuinely can’t understand why people can’t grasp that these days.
These ridiculous decisions and demands claiming to be pro consumer do the exact opposite. They will have a detrimental effect on the (I’m guessing) majority of Apple customers who like things just how they are or simply don’t care or worse don’t realise the potential consequences of it being more open and thus expose themselves to greater risk.
I have nothing personally against it being a turn off/turn off option at all. That is choice and people can then make that decision. But I do have a problem with people demanding it after buying the product, and even as a turn on/turn off option, why should Apple do anything at all?
It’s all a bit like the people who buy houses at the end of airport runways and then complain forever more about aircraft noise and demand timings or routes be altered but with no care for what it does to the people who then get the noise instead. You know what you’re getting.