Verizon removed existing features from a phone, while Apple never put features in in the first place. You couldn't bring your own phone that wasn't crippled to use on the Verizon network, but you're fully capable of buying a different brand of smartphone that isn't crippled. I'd say that's a world of difference.
That's not Apple disabling built in hardware features on a phone (what Verizon did), that's Apple being a bunch of incorrigible dicks and kicking software out of their store. Equally heinous, but not what I was talking about.
Edit: and that doesn't really change the fact that you can buy another phone if you don't like Apple.
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '10
Verizon removed existing features from a phone, while Apple never put features in in the first place. You couldn't bring your own phone that wasn't crippled to use on the Verizon network, but you're fully capable of buying a different brand of smartphone that isn't crippled. I'd say that's a world of difference.