It should be obvious to everyone that Apple is Microsoft of the 1990s vintage. There isn't a lot of innovation in hardware that requires huge numbers of people to upgrade their phones and laptops as often as they did before. This requires services revenue to make up for it, and Apple is taking very aggressive tactics to ensure the App Store cash cow continues. They are fighting in every battlefield and spending enormous legal and tactical resources to do so. Any wedge into their closed ecosystem, from alternative app stores to side loading to web apps to alternative payment rails, must be prevented at all costs.
For people using Windows, Microsoft of the 2020s is also like Microsoft of the 1990s, and possibly even worse. All the bundled apps, cloud requirements, “accidental” pushes of features that people had already declined, telemetry, etc.
I'll chime in and say I'm not really interested in who's worse. Microsoft, Apple, and Google are all abusive in their own ways and should all be broken up.
When talking about antitrust it's very easy to slip into comparing companies (the Apple vs Windows narrative is one that Apple ingrained into culture for years), but all of these companies are terrible and we are fully capable of pursuing antitrust against all of them simultaneously. They don't have to be ranked.
