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So a car manufacturer can tell you which roads you can use with the car you purchased and own, since it's "their product, their rules"?
I like that analogy a lot, but I'm not sure if it's really apples-to-Apple in this context. It's more like you buy a car and then get add-ons to the car from a third-party vendor that operates out of the manufacturer's store. I'd say they have a right to ask for a cut on orders placed through that store, but definitely should not be forced to process all orders through said store.
Kinda. They could suspend warranty if you don't use the vehicle as intended.
And the same should apply to mobile devices: lock me out of your ecosystem, deny updates, suspend warranty, I don't care but simply let me root, unlock bootloader, sideload, jailbreak and all that nice stuff.