> So it’s Apple’s fault that your plan doesn’t have SMS?

It's Apple fault to not make an iMessage app for Android though

My friends with iPhones don't even know that when they are messaging with me I receive an SMS, because Apple never made it clear that iMessage is Apple only

SMS by the way is not a chat protocol, it's an alerting protocol

So Apple is using it wrong

> It’s called Android, their are literally dozens of other phones out their from $50-$2000 in every shape and form you can imagine.

Android is not Apple competitor.

Android is iOS competitor and prior was Windows Mobile or Blackberry competitor.

In fact you can install a different OS on Android phones, you can't on Apple phones and that's the point, if it's a closed platform, it's a closed market, different from other markets and Apple is a monopolist in it.

You are conflating you arguments with meaningless comparisons.

> I wouldn’t complain because I couldn’t get pizza in a Chinese restaurant. I would go to a Pizza shop.

You would if the chinese store forced you to buy pizza from them because you have chinese pottery at home

I don't know why is it so hard to understand that these arguments are childish at best

> You are just as free to say that you can get a cheaper subscription on your one website as you can say you can buy a TV cheaper somewhere else - just not in a competitors store.

No, you are not on Apple store.

From their developers' guidelines

Chapter 3, paragraph 3.1

> Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, etc. Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase.

I imagined that before engaging in a discussion you read the relative documentation ...

I guess you didn't

> Apple has plenty of competition

It does not.

It's artificial competition.

The point is Apple is a market per se and is a monopolist in that market.

If only people could have some degree of freedom it would be a different situation.

> I choose the alternative.

THere's no alternative to Apple, Apple is a different closed ecosystem.

When you'll understand that, everything will be clearer.

> I didn’t need the government for that.

Iḿ sorry to state it like this, Iḿ Italian and my english is decent at best, but who cares what you need?

I don't need a doctor right now, but I'm happy the government of my country is funding a public healthcare that can take care for free of people who need it and/or couldn't afford it if it was an expensive procedure

> Even when people were complaining that Microsoft was a monopoly. I had an MS free house.

They weren't complaining, they were stating the obvious, in fact MS was sentenced for "abuse of dominant position"

Sun Microsystem raised the complain and won.

Epic is doing the same to Apple, and will probably get some satisfaction.

> What do you say about people that constantly complain about products that they don’t own?

What do you say of people that constantly assume?

> If Apple is stifling competition, where all of the profitable, successful Android only apps?

The same apps that are profitable on iOS are profitable on Android, but they cost less for the user and the developer have the possibility of earning more

You can play Fortnite on Android even if Google removes it from their store.

Can you do the same on iOS?