I'm not sure it's a matter of civil liberty, but I think it's definitely an issue of social responsibility. imo, it's desirable to live in a world where anyone

I'm not sure it's a matter of civil liberty, but I think it's definitely an issue of social responsibility. imo, it's desirable to live in a world where anyone can code up any app they want, and share it with people. This seems like a given to me if you care about equitable access to information technology or whatever. Apple is creating a world where they're the only realistic way to get apps onto the personal computing devices of a large share of society. Since that's Apple's choice, it's their responsibility to reconcile these two points.* If they're not doing that, it seems appropriate for society to create better incentives for Apple. (* Promoting and processing payments for every sketchy unverified submission is probably not the right way to go about that, sure.)