No problem 😊 thanks for taking the time to read.

I’d agree with some form of regulation and would love to see it done on many things, but it’s very hard to do with regards to pricing services (value is subjective to most people) and with most major businesses it’s all about maximising profits so they’d look for loopholes or simply increase the price of everything so their profits remains the same and/or increase.

Sadly though Apple in particular has veered far from what most would like to see. A whole “right to repair” movement essentially sparked thanks to apples anti-consumer practices where they essentially forced customers to get repairs done in their own stores, preventing customers from finding cheaper repair alternatives. In the US they also had government help in preventing alternative/independent repair shops from using refurbished/repaired parts (these were authentic MacBook and phone parts that were fixed but blocked from delivery).

I’d have to give it to Apple that it does test the majority of software for malware but they still miss some too and there’s lots of games that would be considered malware in my opinion (damages phones or collects data across multiple apps/spyware), they only have guarantees against ‘known’ malware, so anything new that’s purpose built can bypass their detection. But generally speaking App stores on either platform don’t intentionally push malware onto consumers and do similar testing to search for known malware, it’s just easier to bypass and do on android since it’s a lot more open.

I may sound like I’m shitting on Apple but iPhones, iPads and MacBooks are good quality products albeit overpriced they tend to work great imo and everything within the Apple brand does work very well together, usually an instant plug and play.