Of course it's not arbitrary; It is a direct enforcer of their gatekeeping. Instead of bullshitting, they can just sell two kinds of devices, one with this rest

Of course it's not arbitrary; It is a direct enforcer of their gatekeeping. Instead of bullshitting, they can just sell two kinds of devices, one with this restriction and one without. The market will show you how many people really want this. Heck, they could do annual voting for each year's new versions, if they can't bother to create two types of phones (which they obviously can). We have seen all the bullshit before in governments, and big tech is not that different. Big anything needs some kinds of democratic checks and balances to keep it from exploiting its users to the very end.