I grew up in the 90s during a time where the only way to get software was from the local computer store. Pop the disk into your computer and you're running the software, warts and all.

Now that physical media is all but gone, computer manufacturers (both personal computers and phones) found it behooved them to essentially control the market with regards to what can get installed on your computer. Oh, and conveniently, they charge a fee for developers to use this "service," and take a percentage of what the developer earns by selling software on their "service." And somehow in the late 2000s early 2010s, it just became normalized, and somehow the term for being able to install software on a device you supposedly own became a scary term, "jailbreak."

Granted, jailbreaking was often used for piracy, but the fact that there needed to be a process at all confounds me.

My mom has an iPhone and she manages to install a bunch of weird things on her phone, like anti-virus software that almost certainly don't scan for viruses, but are all too happy to take your money to make your phone more secure. These are things that the App Store "service" should have guarded against if they were indeed doing their jobs and protecting consumers from bad software.

And, I wouldn't be surprised if she'd be locked out of her banking app eventually because [insert entity here] deems her phone too old to update her banking app. She's "following the rules" and still getting screwed over.