So basically under the cover of having packaged technology much of which was developed with public funds, Apple is acting as a monopolist provider of security protection. Nice linux-based networked computing device you got here, shame if something were to happen to it. Why is policing the streets a common good, and policing apps left to a pair of oligarchies?
policing apps is not left to oligarchies. It's a crime to install malware on someone's machine, and it is enforceable. But sometimes you as an individual want a "pre-crime" agency, and maybe it's best not to have the "pre-crime" agency be the state. And that's why, for better or worse, we have mallcops and neighborhood patrols.
The flaw in you comparison is thinking that whoever is in control of this will think in your well being and not actually cheat.
This exact thread is over this "good dictator" being caught cheating and thinking about their own well being first, with their users being damaged and treated as second-class citizens.
The company have a great marketing strategy that makes you and others first you are first class, while in reality their goals and objectives comes first in detriment to your expectations about it.
But somehow this marketing campaign is so good, that even when caught in the act, a lot of their users are still in denial.
BTW, about mall cops and "pre-crime"; mall cops cant arrest anybody before they commit a said "crime". Also, the definition of what is a crime and not is pretty dangerous and used by people with malice over and over to resort some form of control and manipulation over public opinion (see Bush "War on terror" for instance used to bomb Saddam and cap citizens rights and get reelection, which is basically "War on drugs" 2.0).
