[potatoproduct]

""Apple has better app selection (for most people). Apple has been increasingly implementing the core features that differentiate Android devices, like USB-C and RCS.""

You mean Apple has been forced by regulators to implement core features like USB-C and RCS?

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...

[dietr1ch]

Sure, but uninformed consumers won't see it that way. Maybe in their circles it just sounds like a great idea and they thank Apple for implementing it.

[lkjdsklf]

Even if you’re an informed consumer, it doesn’t matter.

Whether they did it out of the goodness of their heart or because a regulator forced them, it’s still got usb-c

[AlexandrB]

Saying they were forced to implement USB-C is really overstating things. Apple loooved USB-C - so much so that their ill-fated butterfly switch laptops went all-in on it. They also helped design it. It's highly likely they were planning a move to USB-C anyway and the EU just pushed it forward a year.

[weazl]

This is untrue. Apple was fighting EU the entire time trying to avoid a switch to USB-C on iPhones. EU representatives were publicly critical of Apple, eventually Apple was forced to give in.