Was Microsoft in the 1990s better than Apple in the 2020s?

It's disinformation and tarnishing campaign against Apple. Right or wrong, the complaint against MS was it was excluding the choice of the browser by making the IE not installable.

What Apple might be doing here is refusing to list a product on a non-monopoly, non-exclusive private market place. How are the two even comparable? Appstore is not the only way to sell an app?