>This stuff happens despite the tight control, not because of it.
The question isn't weather or not happens, it's weather it's worth the enormous sacrifice of personal computing:
No self hosting dev environments
The dev environments you can find are pretty terrible (often in weird ways you don't notice until you've spent a day working around them.)
Apple decides moderation rules for every chat service with push notifications on the platform. They kick you off the platform if you're not up to their standards.
An extension to the last one is that Apple is able to (and does!) silence political ideas on the platform they don't like. They've gone as far as censoring Xscreensaver on iOS because they don't like the political thoughts people might have watching it. This is a major threat to democracy weather you currently agree with their positions or not.
No innovation is allowed. Want to try a WIMP style GUI? Nope, Apple will kick you off. Even if you don't explicitly violate the rules odd looking GUIs are sometimes assumed to use private APIs and can result in a rejection.
There are many (probably infinitely) more major sacrifices but I'm tired of listing them.
> but it is the least broken out there.
No! Debian and F-droid work extremely well, the difference here is that the community is maintaining the repo and they require everything be done out in the open.
The question isn't weather or not happens, it's weather it's worth the enormous sacrifice of personal computing:
No self hosting dev environments
The dev environments you can find are pretty terrible (often in weird ways you don't notice until you've spent a day working around them.)
Apple decides moderation rules for every chat service with push notifications on the platform. They kick you off the platform if you're not up to their standards.
An extension to the last one is that Apple is able to (and does!) silence political ideas on the platform they don't like. They've gone as far as censoring Xscreensaver on iOS because they don't like the political thoughts people might have watching it. This is a major threat to democracy weather you currently agree with their positions or not.
No innovation is allowed. Want to try a WIMP style GUI? Nope, Apple will kick you off. Even if you don't explicitly violate the rules odd looking GUIs are sometimes assumed to use private APIs and can result in a rejection.
There are many (probably infinitely) more major sacrifices but I'm tired of listing them.
> but it is the least broken out there.
No! Debian and F-droid work extremely well, the difference here is that the community is maintaining the repo and they require everything be done out in the open.