Apple can't censor the programs you run on iOS. There is jailbreaking, and Apple's Testflight even allows developers to distribute up to 10,000 copies of your a

Apple can't censor the programs you run on iOS. There is jailbreaking, and Apple's Testflight even allows developers to distribute up to 10,000 copies of your app with minimal review. One of the reasons iOS is so popular is the inherent safety in Apple's sandboxing and app review. If you don't care about that Android has app stores that are far less restrictive and it's easier to side load apps on. That's real consumer choice, you don't expect Nordstroms to allow all of Walmart's clothes vendors to dump their crap on it's shelves. As far as our phones and PCs are concerned, we live in a wonderfully free world. You can distribute software to anyone on a web page, or native apps to billions of people by following a few app store rules. If you don't like either of those options, you can actually build your own smart phones to offer consumers what you think is a better choice, there are multiple operating systems that are entirely open source. The only pressure on platform owners is customer expectations. They don't like viruses, malware, etc. Some don't like their kids downloading apps that might lead them in ways they don't like. Giving customers what they want isn't censorship at all.