Despite all of your rancor at people who say "if you don't like it, don't buy it", that's actually a totally legitimate response to this.

No one is forcing anyone to buy an Apple product. Plenty of more-open products have been introduced to the market placed and then failed.

Just because *you* want a particular product on the market doesn't mean you are *entitled* to have that product exist on the marketplace.

Me? I'm a big fan of hardware keyboards. I clung to them far longer than I should have on phones. I even bought a BlackBerry Passport hoping it would work out for me (and other than the shape being nearly impossible to hold with one hand, I loved it). I thought Windows Phone was a marvelous approach to smartphones. Both of these things lost in the marketplace, not through any nefarious deeds on behalf of Google and Apple, but through simple market forces.

Did I call Obama's office and demand legislation forcing Microsoft to say in the phone business and making Apple produce a phone with a hardware keyboard?

No, no I did not. I accepted that the general market wasn't going to support products that met my exact needs, and bought something I didn't particularly care for, and still do not particularly care for almost 10 years later, but the value of it is still greater than not having it.

If people want open phone ecosystems, easily-repaired phones, and so on, they do have (and have had) options, yet every time those options appear they swiftly evaporate.

You're angry that not enough people like cars painted neon green (other than Dodge Challengers) because scientists prove that neon green cars reduce accidents by 1.8%, so you want the government to force car makers to make cars in neon green so you can buy one and be 1.8% safer... instead of just painting your car neon green.

J.Ja