> I feel strange having watched from afar as apple abused their users over and over, and then see apple users be surprised and horrified at this more recent behavior.

I’m deeply ingrained in the Apple ecosystem and feel thoroughly unabused right now. But I’m in the US and only watching this play out with mild amusement and schadenfreude at Tim Epic continuing to give and get the middle finger from Apple.

Hard disagree on basically everyone you said beyond this move not being too surprising. Apple holds grudges. Always has.

But this is just asking for trouble without any real benefit.

Maybe they want the fight, I guess. But it's a dumb fight.