RE These moves are about control; but interpreting whether it's in the sense of an attempt to lock users into the Apple ecosphere, or in the sense of "quality control," seems to depend on one's prior disposition regarding Apple.
Methinks you're being too kind ~ diplomatic. It's all about control, pretty much in the Orwellian sense — which, given Apple's one-off Macintosh ad in 1984, has a peculiar irony attached to it.
I had thought, even way back then, that Apple/Macintosh was a boon to those of us who stared at the C: prompt flashing, not knowing what to do. And I further projected that such systems would become more and more user friendly, to the point that the human-machine interface would be seamless. Sadly, it all has become most unseemly, and now human-machine interface (to me, at least) has become so cumbersome as to make me want to become a Luddite troglodyte. My singular comment, the same in oh, so many languages, is: merde/mierda/Scheiße/govno/....
Orwellian? Â Hilarious. You've never even used an iPad... have you?
And what else? Installing software is cumbersome? LOL. Perhaps you should just stick with a television then.
