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It kind of makes sense. Both are closed systems that place rules what is good or bad for their members. If we cannot trust a person to choose whether a certain salary is good or bad for them, why would we trust them to decide what apps are good or bad for them?

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The minimum wage is beneficial because employers tend to have more leverage than employees in the relationship. It's actually similar to the leverage Apple has over its users. And they've used that leverage to control what apps people are allowed to use. So the EU forcing Apple to let users install apps serves a similar purpose as the minimum wage - both are curtailing potential abuses against a group of people with little power in their situation.

The same logic applies. Users have less leverage over popular apps. Hence they rely on someone who has more leverage over the app developers (Apple) to shift the balance on their favor.

Note that most of the complaints about Apple’s ecosystem are from developers, not from actual users.

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