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They view the App Store as, well, a store. Just like virtually any other store, online or off, they restrict what they choose to sell. Ordinarily this isn't controversial, but for the fact that in Apple's case, the App Store is the only way to get native apps.

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> Apple has complete control over the kind of information you can get on your phone, and it exercises that right seemingly capriciously.

is just blatantly wrong, of course. It only has (near) complete control over the native apps you can get on your phone. There are several other obvious channels of information that it does not control.