>Apple to some extent is protecting us from Facebook and Google and keeping us more in control of our devices, by limiting which applications can be run on them.

Right, Including protecting me from me unless I find extra pleasure in ‘calling big fruit boss every few days’ for running my own soft on my (supposedly) own phone.

To avoid this ‘pleasure’ I have to pay developer fee yearly. If someone is looking for definition of ‘idiocy’ one should look no further.

Yet there is always someone trying to justify even that. ‘It is more secure ‘ - they usually say forgetting to mention that security starts with control and ends without it.

The obvious question to ask usually would be:

So who would protect you from Apple itself?

More entertaining question could be: Who is going to protect you from you?

But then we recall about AI and we can guess the answer which spoils the whole entertaining aspect of the question.

So the only question left is: What people would not justify when some big company does it?