The free market is your ability to pick up your toys and focus on Android. That's not a commentary on whether Apple is right or wrong, mind you, but there's no questioning it's their platform.
There is no real choice except Android and iOs and you can't "carry over" apps (and often content in apps, too) which you have bough.
Also Phones are not cheap and you can't switch your phone os between them.
This means that there is defacto no free marked between iOs and Android (as you have no real choice and once you choose switching is problematic and expensive). So the only choice we have is to enforce a free marked IN iOs and Android.
Or with other words there is a marked for iOs apps and a different marked for Android apps. Treating them as one marked is ignoring how the world works 2020.
True, but Markets aren't just constrained to specialists, and if by virtue of more people becoming developer-esque, more people are buying into there being an issue with Apple's business model, then there's an issue with Apple's business model.
We're just now breaking into more widespread adoption of microelectronics as a fact of life for the public where the newer generations have no concept of there not being these things. What was okay in the early adoption phase isn't once you start getting established.
I think your emphasis on the wrong word. It's their platform. A platform is the base for other people to build their business on -- and at the point maybe the rules should be different.
As an analogy, if you own a house, you can do whatever you want you with it. But as soon as you rent out part of that house, you lose some of that ability. You can no longer do whatever you want or kick out your renters at will.
Apparently some of Palantir's line is so secret we don't know about it. The products we have heard of, like "Gotham" (?!!), are ineffective at the task of "assisting police without violating human rights". That task is important to humans, but not to some of those who decide where police departments spend money. It's a principal-agent problem.
If a product aimed at law enforcement, say, doesn't work, but does make law enforcement more arbitrary, then both are satisfied.
Not saying that's the case here, but one could be forgiven for assuming that a lot of 'predictive policing' stuff is snake oil, but dangerous snake oil.
Not even software exists in only a vacuum, it's influenced by real world events. There are lots of people who see some of these changes as a threat to the existence of the software they use and want to secure it themselves
or Microsoft Silverlight, and soon Flash will be finally deprecated too, and I'm sure it will still be present in enterprise training modules and other nonsense
