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You need to buy Apple’s hardware to get their software. It’s a software company with a hardware lock, if you will

YOU still have that completely backwards.

Apple is a hardware company. It develops its OSes to support their devices. No other company is allowed to develop OSes to run their devices. Apple does NOT develop OSes or application or services for other devices made by other manufacturers. A software company does not concentrate on its own devices. Thus, Apple is only developing software that only supports their hardware. IOW, their hardware comes first, and then the software is developed around THEIR hardware.

Microsoft, on the other hand, is a software company with interests in supporting ALL hardware out there, plus their own. That's the opposite of what Apple does.

Android OEMs don't lock in their customers. Their customers are free to go elsewhere for their next device, or back to the same maker. I don't like Android, but, it's "free" and allows their users to seek and use software from MANY software developers. For Apple devices, there is only one company that determines what you can use, even if the app is developed by a third party. The Apple ecosystem is about locking in their customers, thus, the Apple device users are NOT free to seek and use things that are not made by Apple or approved by Apple. There are no other OSes that can be used by Apple device customers, and if there were, those customers would lose their device and software warranties. Are YOU able to tell the difference yet?

Samsung is a hardware company. They make hardware and drop in open source Android. They even make the new amoled screens in the new iPhone. What do you call a company that uses their own proprietary closed source software on their main competitor’s hardware? A software company.

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https://www.sans.org/course/mobile-device-security-ethical-hacking