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I %100 agree about the OS part.

With verifiability although, a side loaded store gives better nerd-level verification ability that the vast majority of nerds wont even bother with, while a trusted app store gives more low skill masses verification higher success rates in a practical manner. Facebook is going to be facebook on the apple app store, not fake facebook, and by breaking the app store only world, your going to get a lot of old people and other vulnerable people be scammed more on their phones.



>your going to get a lot of old people and other vulnerable people be scammed more on their phones.

This hasn't happened on Android. The fears about evil apps and developers insisting on their own app stores are fabricated FUD by Apple. The simple truth is 99.9% of regular users will never install an app outside the official store. Most will never know it is even an option.




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