iOS devices have had a file system users can at least save and retrieve from for years now.
The mobile app landscape has changed from the gold rush early last decade, and I rarely install anybody's. I empathize with the developers still trying to make it there, but its not a user's problem.
The protocols that Apple chooses to promulgate work really well.
Flagship games work really well.
The garden has gotten really big, I can't see the walls anymore but little bad gets in.
Computers do what I want them to, here. They don't do what I want them to do outside of here. For context, I jump into a Windows instance, or routinely put compute instances in the cloud.
If all that works for you, that's mostly fine, and for the most part I don't think you should feel like you have to defend yourself. But two things:
1) Not all of us are like that. Admittedly I'm very far in the other camp: I run Linux as a desktop OS, and have done so for most of the past 20 years. For much of that I even ran Linux on Apple hardware (because I really did love their hardware), but a few years ago finally gave up due to the increasing frequency of undocumented things that don't work. But there are many of us (less extreme than I am, who would otherwise be content to run macOS and iOS) who absolutely do not buy in to a world where they don't truly own their devices.
2) There's a pervasive worry around here that Apple's approach will catch on, the end result being that full control over your own hardware and software will be a near impossibility. (Or, you'll be able to have it, but then be denied access to things like streaming media, and government and financial apps, a trade off people shouldn't have to make.) I think that's a very real possibility in the longer term, and I think the end result of that is total surveillance and a world where corporations decide what we're allowed to do with technology. And I think for this reason there can be a bit of hostility toward people such as yourself who are happy in the Apple walled garden and seem unconcerned about the future implications of this kind of computing model.
As an aside, I also reject the idea that it's necessary that the user give up agency over their devices in order to be protected from malware. A walled garden -- no matter how far away the walls are -- is not a requirement to keep bad stuff out.
iOS devices have had a file system users can at least save and retrieve from for years now.
The mobile app landscape has changed from the gold rush early last decade, and I rarely install anybody's. I empathize with the developers still trying to make it there, but its not a user's problem.
The protocols that Apple chooses to promulgate work really well.
Flagship games work really well.
The garden has gotten really big, I can't see the walls anymore but little bad gets in.
Computers do what I want them to, here. They don't do what I want them to do outside of here. For context, I jump into a Windows instance, or routinely put compute instances in the cloud.