Your example about Edge shows that Windows is also a walled garden. They just haven't finished all the wall building quite yet.
Apple is, at least often, better than those. It's just that none of them are good enough.
Oh, I don't think that Windows and Android are the only alternatives. Android is pretty much the only smartphone alternative, though.
My primary machines run NetBSD :)
Your example about Edge shows that Windows is also a walled garden. They just haven't finished all the wall building quite yet.
Apple is, at least often, better than those. It's just that none of them are good enough.