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My parents are not technical, I don't want to have to worry about their phones or computers, so they use iphones and ipads, and I have a pi-hole connected to their router that clears away most ads.

They like going to the app store and knowing there is at least some level of curation on the apps. If they suddenly have to start dealing with competing app stores and sideloading and menus and all that stuff their experience will undoubtedly be worse for it.




Do you think suddenly iphones will come out of the box with competing app stores?

What made this strange thought pop into your head?


I think they'll visit sites and instead of being recommended to install an app, they'll be recommended to install an app with a redirection to a different app store.

Apple takes a huge cut of the money spent on the app store, and everyone will have a huge incentive to move users to different stores if they can. This isn't difficult to understand if you thought about it for more than a minute.


That would be apple's problem then for making their store so unattractive to developers. What you're saying here is that if developers had a choice they'd tell apple go fuck themselves and you're probably right. "We'll engage in anti-competitive practices so our customers can't escape our shitty offering" is not the flex you think it is.


Ok, and then it won't work unless they explicitly authorize a new app store to be installed.

Android supports it, but it's not just 1 click from a browser to get a new app store.




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