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I think there's more to this idea. I don't think they're interested in branching out in that direction, but I think it comes down to software compatibility. Let's say you're Sony, and you want your ps3 controller to operate on Windows as well as your own console. Well you can create your own drivers, or you might already have some, so it's extremely easy to get that to be compatible with just about anything, given that you have the source code to your product and all that. In order to get the same controller to talk to the phone, you need to get them to speak the same language through a sort of driver as well. In Windows, this has been built in for a long time. And even if you're not Sony, you can reverse engineer the hardware to get it to do almost anything with the software by creating your own tools, or injecting custom drivers. This is not the case with just about any Apple product. Apple does not allow pretty much anyone to understand their products, hardware or software, so they don't allow companies, and certainly not the average consumer, to do literally anything that they may want to do. The company doesn't want you to use the hardware you own to do anything *they* don't want you to do with it, *especially* use it beyond a certain point due to both planned and forced obsolecense. So if you want to use a ps3 controller with x Apple product, because Apple hasn't had any official support for that, and nobody else can create support for it without jailbreaking which Apple hates, meaning the only people who can get that to happen are Apple, and since Apple stands to earn nothing from supporting hardware they don't sell, they won't support it. I stand by what I said when I said that, if they want you doing something, they only want you doing it in their ecosystem that they profit from. So they lock their code to themselves, which doesn't allow anybody to develop solutions to their problems, then they don't give solutions to those problems until they've decided they can invest in creating their own product so they can profit off of that problem they've created, which creates more e-waste, less competition, and more stress on the individual.
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I think they realize that they actually *do* stand to earn something called Consumer Trust, but they just think such a thing is worthless in comparison to Corporate Slavery. For every rich idiot that shackles themselves to the Apple ecosystem, there's a poor person who is far more free because they're just trying to use something GOOD rather than shiny.
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