The idea that the de facto primary computing platform for most of the world is an 'app console' is trash. Apple may be treating it like a console, but it's so much more important than that and is a critical component in the daily lives of nearly everybody on this planet https://twitter.com/daringfireball/status/1294468359644303363

The smartphone is everything from communication to banking to camera to credit card to medical device to navigation to game platform. It doesn't play in the same arena as games consoles; it doesn't even play in same arena as desktop computers — it's far more important than the PC

All the more essential that the future of innovation atop smartphone computing is not entirely beholden to the whims of a single team (or VP) at a single company, who has shown time and time again that they can modify and abuse their rules for their own benefit