> If you don't even have any experience with iOS development, then you have no basis for making any claims about that subject, and thus I'm not going to bother explaining "What would be so outlandish about that?"

The basis for my claims about the subject is my knowledge of computing and development in general. I dipped my toes into iOS dev a few times and there's nothing that seemed to set it apart from any other SDK situation beyond Apple's restrictions, at least nothing that would make my claim outlandish.

That is never going to happen. We will never get the same freedom we enjoy on pc's again for the simple fact it benefits both the platform owners and governments to have a simple centralize company in this case (Apple & Google) to go to get what they want. The freedom we have on pc's is too much of a wild west and not enough control that both governments and platform owners like. As much as we may want to it will never happen for those reasons.

I think if you adjusted his statement to be - not use apple’s “everything” software ecosystem - it would be possible.

Core device apis yes, everything else, maybe not?

I think we could roll our own UI - I think we can roll our own payment systems - I think we could roll our own media display.

For the primary iOS app I work on I need vulkan, gps, touches camera, sound, and phone rotation. (And standard os services)

I don’t need anything else.