Smartphones are just small PCs with touch screens. They should have similar vendor/customer dynamics: no app store monopoly, no inserting yourself in my private business transactions to extort some rent seeking 30% middleman fee, etc. The present behavior of this "mobile PC" duopoly is absolutely nuts, and needs a reckoning for their anti-consumer behavior.
All of that is a known entity before buying an iPhone though. You don't have a right to change the terms you agreed to before/at purchase.
I'd rather not be limited to Apple's app store, but if I buy an iPhone, I'm accepting its involvement in the purchase. I don't get to go back and say "oh yeah, and I demand that you remove these conditions."
Android allows for alternative app stores, yet they're barely worth mentioning. That's a tell that the market doesn't care whether a smartphone ties users to a single app vendor or not.
> no inserting yourself in my private business transactions to extort some rent seeking 30% middleman fee, etc
Except that Spotify can avoid the 30% fee, so that's hardly a good description.
