Apple would get the outrage if other app stores existed but you risked bricking your phone if you installed apps from them.

Part of the difference here is likely due to Apple primarily penalising the developers (second order effects hit the consumer). If Apple were directly hitting consumers it would be a louder series of protests.

HP are targeting the consumers, not the 3rd party suppliers, which Apple hits.

Apple (reversibly) bricks parts of the phone, even when you buy genuine parts, because they want you to pay them for the new components to be allowed to talk to each other.

>Probably because people are not directly aware of the Apple premium,

It's because it's developers who piss and moan about the 30%, while most consumers get value from having to go through the AppStore, such as 1.) being able to cancel subscriptions quickly and easily and 2.) ensuring that developers aren't abusing permissions to siphon data from the device.

Also it's actually only a 15% cut for the vast majority of developers. Shouldn't matter either way once Apple is forced to allow sideloading.

Maybe because most non game apps never pay the 30% fee (Netflix, Spotify, apps that see physical services like Uber, apps that require a subscription outside of the App Store) and according to the Epic lawsuit, most of the revenue (80%+) comes from slimy pay to win games.

Whether you think it is a good value is up for debate but users do get some benefit from buying through the App Store. (Security, convenience, etc.)

You get nothing extra from buying HP first party ink otherwise they wouldn’t do this.

Same argument: "You get nothing extra from buying AppStore apps otherwise they wouldn’t do this."

People are less upset because Apple does not brick the phone when the user downloads an app they don't like. (they might in the future, but not today).

HP doesn't brick the printers either, it just doesn't print with third party cartridges.

That's a fair-ish point, but in practical terms, the printer is bricked until I pay up, whereas the phone is basically working with all free apps and web apps, which for many people is good enough.

So it's a significant difference.

Because a printer can’t function without ink, that’s its sole purpose unless it is a multi function printer.

iPhones and iPads, you still can do other things, it’s not a paper weight cause you rooted your device or sideloaded an emulator…