It's enough of an issue where I honestly don't understand how a single user on a site called 'hacker'news could be okay with it.
Imagine if you couldn't run software of your choosing on Windows either. And the only way to publish an app on Windows was to agree to give Microsoft 30% of everything. That's the exact behavior your enabling by using Apple products.
The thing is, we all have laptops within our vicinity most of the time.
The people who are really affected by these policies are the normal people who don’t own computers. For many people their phone is their one and only computing device.
Especially for kids, if I had grown up with only an iPhone I doubt I would have become a programmer.
Imagine if you couldn't run software of your choosing on Windows either. And the only way to publish an app on Windows was to agree to give Microsoft 30% of everything. That's the exact behavior your enabling by using Apple products.