The population China didn’t have the choice where they were born.

With Apple, you have a choice, knowing fully the pros and cons of the ecosystem, whether to buy into it.

It’s not the same at all.

Choosing between two evils is a choise?

That the other guy is evil, and that’s the only other choice, isn’t Apple’s fault.

Chinese can technically migrate too. It's just not so easy, they may have family and work that hold you there.

Same as with Apple. You may want to leave it but you have HomeKit devices and bunch of apps you use for work.

Agree, I think the solution here is to separate the app store from apple(the hardware manufacturer).

It would be a very clean split and would take away the onvious monopoly where a single company can control what users can or cannot use on their personal communication devices.

Furthermore apples monopoly is even more eggregious than microsofts in 2000 as back then microsoft did not own the PC hardware, imagine if microsoft did and told you what programs you could and couldn't put on your personal computer!

Are there instances of apple disallowing criticism of Apple?

The analogy doesn't have to hold on every possible behavior of the two entities compared for OP to have a valid point.

Same could be said for Nintendo or Sony, who assert the same control. Most of the money made is on games.

Agreed, but I was pointing out one of many significant differences.

I was generally pointing out that the analogy has extremely tenuous overlap.

Comparing a software ecosystem to an authoritative regime is a very big call, only one step away from the classic “x is basically hitler”

All those poor children born in Apple.

Is Apple a government? Are Apple users born into its ecosystem? Is Apple committing genocide?

I personally think Apple is garbage these days, but its nowhere near CCP levels of garbage.

You could say pretty much any corporation in America is like the CCP in that they are undemocratic and take unilateral action at the expense of stakeholders. Karl Marx has a lot to say about this. Complaining about Apple in these terms is missing the forest for the trees.