> I know exactly what happens when we just let the free market "manage" anything.

This is literally how we got here right now. The "free market" allowed Apple to be anti-competitive. The way you say it makes it sound like we're not in a free market, lol.

Monopolies (or its variants) are literally the end game of free markets. You can't have free markets without eventually reaching this shitty endgame of a few players manipulating the market as they see fit.