> Who says the iPhone is a general platform? It’s not, it’s a closed platform with specific features designed and implemented by its manufacturer. One of those features is a mechanism for installing additional software modules.

Apple themselves? Part of their marketing is literally that you can do everything on their devices.

> Should we really be requiring Apple or any manufacturer, by law, to implement specific defined features to support and enable side loading and management of external apps.

I can't see why not, the mobile app market has terrible competition, there's a big market issue here.