One of the neatest tricks Big Tech ever pulled was convincing people that phones weren't general-purpose computers and should have different rules than laptops or desktops. These rules conveniently give the vendor more control.
Now these rules are moving to laptops and desktops.
I was inspired to expand this into a full article to give myself a bit more space to talk about the issues:
https://puri.sm/posts/the-general-purpose-computer-in-your-pocket/
@kyle not my laptops and desktops!
Microsoft got in antitrust trouble for bundling IE for free w/ Windows to compete with Netscape.
Now imagine Microsoft controlled whether Netscape could be installed or updated on Windows, and blocked them, and you are closer to the current situation with phones.