It seems to me that what's led to the success of the Internet is that it's not a managed environment. Anyone is free to release anything (subject to it not harm

It seems to me that what's led to the success of the Internet is that it's not a managed environment. Anyone is free to release anything (subject to it not harming the rest of the ecosystem), and either it sticks, or it dies. Thus, its users can pick out what balance is most useful to themselves. But Apple believes that they can judge our needs better than we ourselves can. They have the wisdom (so they believe) to say that this hypothetical niche vertical app is less important than having everything meet their own rules, so it's not allowed to exist. Apple may even find that this buys them some short-term success. But in the long term, this will eventually lead to ossification and the same scrap heap as mainframes et al.