But ask yourself, would business do this anyway? The answer is yes. Google needs a growth target and modeling app store lockin and fees is there.
Youre free to live in paranoid government land, but its an unnecessary abstraction. Its actually the EU and US rulings against their monopoly thats driving it.
Again, the paranoia is just drivel.
This is just what you'd expect any government that is either competent or greedy to be doing, given the technologies at play.
Calling it "thought crime" is, of course, a bit glib. But things like "we want to monitor the communications of every pro Palestinian university student so we can take proactive disruptive actions" are very real and not so hidden desires and sentiments of modern Western governments.
> Its actually the EU and US rulings against their monopoly thats driving it.
Can you elaborate on this? Locking phones down like this would seem to make Google an even bigger target for future anti-trust suits, no?
Monopoly enforcement only occurs when theres no natural monopoly.
Well, in this domain (government surveillance), probably not paranoia.