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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by etchalon on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:24AM (#24153360)
The rational argument is that the ability to side-load applications would be exploited by the nefarious and the clever to take advantage to naive users.

If a website can convince someone to download a "new version of the Flash Player", those same websites will convince someone to "side-load this application to protect against identity theft!"

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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by Fargren on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:52AM (#24155071)
Android allows sideloading and this doesn't happen (too much) in Android. It's possible to support walled garden by default while giving the user advanced options to sideload, which are difficult but not too difficult to find.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by etchalon on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:49AM (#24157184)
(Too much) and (not at all) are two different things.
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