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Imagine if you could buy apps on iPhone, switch to an Android and not lose access to your whole app library?

I don't think that's necessarily fair. There are expenses on each platform and paying a dollar or so to pay for those seem fair to me.

Power users mostly imho. I give iPhones to family and friends I support because it’s locked down with less ability to install bad actor apps

It is a win - there is a similar model that we live in everyday that separates Government from Business. It is done in that way in an attempt to balance control.

A first-party only ecosystem is authoritarian and non-competitive. Apple's ecosystem in particular on iOS and iPad OS is akin to your government controlling everything that you can do.

There are several parallels that can be drawn between societal and technological infrastructure.

Security framework is mostly orthogonal to AppStore being the only way to install apps.

Also, Apple strips developer's signature replacing it with AppStore signature. So I, the user, cannot independently verify that I'm running the same thing that developer deployed.