To this day, Apple still maintains a monopoly on application distribution for Apple phones and tablets. While Google was the first to censor the Upscrolled app, the impact of this action is much less severe than if Apple - bound by the same financial, legal, and political incentives - followed suit. On Android phones (for now), end users have the option of installing alternate app stores, or installing applications directly via .apk files.

On the other hand, the entire architecture of Apple's app distribution monopoly is deliberately designed to suffocate the proliferation of Free Software.

0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose

1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others.

3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

It is impossible to distribute software to iPhone/iPad applications to end-users with Freedom 1 intact (the second one, in case of Markdown rendering shenanigans). While they may receive the source code and study it, there is no way for them to modify it and run their modified versions. Each individual user must pay for and be granted a license from Apple to do this. Freedom 2+3 is likewise restricted, because receiving a copy of the application or its source code is not enough to actually make use of it - because it cannot be loaded onto the phone and run without Apple's blessing.

As a result, the ecosystem of Free Software applications available for Apple's mobile devices is severely stunted. The legality of distributing GPLv3 software on the platform at all is substantially questionable. This is a very bleak position to be left in, in this moment of accelerating tech company collaboration with the empire.

While Apple might have infinitely more poise than Google, it really is a "Mr. Evart Apple is helping me find my gun privacy" situation.