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Right back to the 1970s, there’s been a religious split between people who want computers that they’re free to change however they like, and people who want computers that are easy and safe to use for as many people as possible. This is a trade-off. 1/
The whole direction of computing since the Apple 1 has been about more abstraction, less access to the lower levels of the system and *inherent in that* more accessibility for more people. 2/
Apple has always been at one extreme end of that debate, taking a strong opinion on how it thought a good computer ‘should’ work and letting you choose it or not. From 1976 to 2015 or so, it was just one niche vendor, and some people chose Apple’s opinion and some didn’t. 3/
But with the iPhone, Apple finally won the argument with users’ wallets, and that means it’s not niche anymore - Apple has become the navy, and different rules apply. 4/
There’s a certain kind of person in tech that thinks app stores and the iOS sandbox have nothing to do with the success of smartphones and the iPhone - they're just a stupid Apple thing you could get rid of with no ill effects.I think this is profoundly wrong. But... 5/
I think Apple will lose its court case with Spotify, and will need to rethink fundamentally how the payment model works. It would be spectacularly bad for users and devs if Epic succeeded in dismantling the App Store model, but the current situation needs to change /end
