Apple facilitates the transaction - they provide the store, the user confidence, the marketplace and the users.
The users do not have rights at all (like cattle). Not even free speech on the phones they own?
The worst thing to me, is the number of people trying to defend this sort of thing, as if it was the most natural thing.
Looks a lot like stockholm syndrome to me.. or you know.. remind me a lot how a lot of people under fascist regimes were unaware of how wrong things had turned out.