Comment by kelthuzad

For some people in the world the iphone is the only general purpose computing device they own, so it is even more important that they aren't artificially constrained so Apple can milk users with absurd fees while citing bogus reasons as justification.

Just look at cases where governments abuse Apple's power over users to squash protests and delete important Apps from the Appstore. Without competing Appstores users are left at the mercy of a trillion dollar company which cares about profits and profits only. Not being able to freely install apps from any source the owner of the computing device prefers is outrageous and we can only thank the EU commission for recognizing that.

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/768841864/after-china-objects...