Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.

Imagine if Microsoft required all Software developers to give them 30% of their income or be banned from Windows

They were replying to the comparison to Windows. What are you on about?

Sure, Jan.

Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.

That was comparing desktop OS to mobile OS, which is why the person to which I replied pointed out this is different than macOS.

On your second point, neither is iOS a workstation, and one could just as easily say, “The only thing you’d want to install is mobile apps.” Okay but the problem isn’t the type of apps, it is the source of those apps. So either you should be able to get application / games from multiple sources or not.

If you think those initial downvotes were due to some pedantic distinction about workstation, and not because somebody indirectly implied that Microsoft and Apple were on similar footing in this regard, fine.

That this completely true observation has twice the downvotes than upvotes highlights this community’s views on Apple.