> People should be able to install whatever software on their computers they want.
And Android supports sideloading apps.
OTOH, that doesn't obligate Google Play to allow any software you want to sell into their store, especially when it violates black and white terms associated with the use of the store.
I don't so much have a problem with the Play store culling out certain violating apps. I'd just prefer it that they do an honest, real job of it[0]. Either curate the system or make it open. What we have now are non-open systems that are not actually all that curated.
[0] And that's slightly separate from whether or not non-app store programs are installable. But I do think that Apple and Google have explicitly attempted to discourage and obfuscate any process for doing so, even so far as to call into question who truly owns the device, you or the corporation.
And Android supports sideloading apps.
OTOH, that doesn't obligate Google Play to allow any software you want to sell into their store, especially when it violates black and white terms associated with the use of the store.