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I had an Apple 4S for a while. Sideloading (which worked on Linux) only worked with some 3rd party apps. I could only use the Apple music player by using iTunes on Windows.
Apple is so walled they have to provide iCloud. I'll not ever get any Apple product again.
Kindle has also got more restrictive. Collections and Series is now broken if you have older and newer Kindles. You used to be able to manage collections from PC. Amazon seem to want you to use their web site. You can't set series at all and it's often wrong or missing on Amazon. See also how Amazon Scribe PDF/KFX works compared to really simple Kobo via USB (Sage, Elipsa etc).
I don't mind what Kobo add as long as current brilliant ability to manage everything via Windows/Mac/Linux is not affected.
So Apple and Amazon are really bad examples as the products are crippled without the vendor's remote server and a decent internet connection.
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