What pisses me off the most, collectively the market has rewarded walled-garden phone OSes to the point where alternatives are not really viable for anyone who uses their phone in a professional environment. And the alleged tradeoff for this is that we wouldn't have the Windows problems with malware, it would all be secured and checked before it got in the garden.
But repeatedly this is not the case, the walls around the garden have doors open wide with big Wile E. Coyote type signs pointing at them for bad actors to just stroll right in.
It was never about that, obvious to anyone who actually can reason about risks and control.
I imported the first iPhone from US, which made it necessary to jailbreak it to be usable (no access to network otherwise). I enjoyed the 3rd party app scene at the same time, something that wasn't even possible with "legit" iPhones.
When announced the App Store in 2008 I thought it was cool they would offer an "official" way of installing/running apps but at the same time I was pissed off because it cames with so many restrictions. Plenty of apps from Cydia would never be able to be downloaded from the official App Store.
Alas, jailbreaking became much more complicated, and too involved for the end user, so we all accepted the compromise of App Store, because there wasn't much other choice in the first place.
It was always obvious that it was about power and money, nothing else. Otherwise, computers would have had the same restrictions to them (Apple is boiling the frog slowly on that front).
At least in the case of Android/Google Play, you have alternatives way to install things and it's not an absolute requirement.
But pretending it improves security significantly is at best an overstatement, at worst an outright lie.
