For me as a user it always looked like Microsoft looks at how Apple does it and is eagerly employs the worst practices of not allowing the user to do anything 'forbidden' and not giving the user control in general.

Google is doing pretty much the same with Android for a long time, too.

My only apple device was an iPod and it was the most cumbersome thing ever. Trying to put music on it on my own laptop was impossible as iTunes wouldn't install. So I'd need to use someone else's computer which would default to synchronizing their library with my device. So all my loser video game soundtracks will be on someone else's device or their american sex music will be on mine. And those 33 pin or whatever Proprietary Cables broke if you breathed on it. Adding music was the closest thing to pulling teeth without actually pulling teeth.

Getting an Android phone instead of an iPhone was literally like breaking free. I can manage my own files directly on the device. I can download apps from anywhere. I can download music without proprietary software and expensive fragile cables. Oh, right, and I can charge it with the same cable my old brick phone used, the one that came with my portable charger, and one that powered my USB fan. A Standard Cable. Ffs.

I - carefully - maintained a music library. Got an ipod. Loved the device. Though sync via itunes was cumbersome.

Wanted to sync my tracks back to another device. Nope. Not supported. Everz track was rewritten into some garbage, including its tags.

Locked in a prison without knowing.

My elderly parents got iphones. They started sharing pictures via their message app. Required multiple times showing them that we - android users - receive aweful pictures. Prison.

Apple watch is only syncing with iphones. Prison.

Used to be an app developer. Releasing something as open source for ios is not feasible. You have to anually pay 120 USD to publish. Prison. Therefore you release the app in a paid manner. They tell you which price to raise. And tax 30%. Prison.

A friend wrote a thesis with some apple-writer thingy. Asked me for some help saving in the required file format. Couldn't manage to. Prison.

god, running unsigned apps was a pain though.

They weren't the ones to come up with the name, so they have to follow what everyone else calls it.

The ambassador or the guy that wrote The wheel of Time series?

my parents were understandably pissed because i had deleted at least a few hundred gigabytes of photos and videos from the last decade. iirc i was banned from touching the computer for at least a year, which was funny because i was literally the only one who used it