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> Similar way of thinking that I know of was Valve and Steam, where Steam users needed to Greenlit a game before it came to the Steam store.

Not the same at all. You can install whatever you want on the Steam Deck.

I'd fine with Apple just curating their App Store; I am not fine with them deciding what software I can run on "my" device.

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I meant Valve didn't want Steam to be flooded with low quality games (back in the day) which would interest nobody and would only turn away people from Steam.

>I'd fine with Apple just curating their App Store; I am not fine with them deciding what software I can run on "my" device.

Yea that's horrible, that's why Microsoft and Windows are great when speaking about PC industry and comparing it to the iOS and iPhones.

I personally only use Android for the same reason why I only use Windows and that is Android and Windows are open operating systems and I can install whatever I want.

In the desktop world, all major OSes are similar in this regard. I can install whatever I want on my Mac laptop, and of course on my Linux computers.

Really iOS is the outlier in the major computing platforms in how much of a walled garden it is.

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