It would be a wildly incorrect analogy. The EU only wants Apple to allow sideloading, not to accept any code in their app store. And I fail to see the relevance

It would be a wildly incorrect analogy. The EU only wants Apple to allow sideloading, not to accept any code in their app store. And I fail to see the relevance that the iPhone "is a lot more". A linux system is also hardware, software, it has WiFi drivers producing radio emissions, it can and does store health records and payments, and performs far more regulated things, like nuclear simulations for energy and medicine [1]. How is this an argument in favor of corporate-locked devices? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_N-Particle_Transport_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_N-Particle_Transpo...