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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by aabbcc1241 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:05PM (#26970919)
You as a user has absolute right to choose whatever app that fulfill your own standards around usability and features, w/wo any app stores.
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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by fossuser on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:21PM (#26971131)
When incentives are not aligned it's effectively moloch [0].

The choice I want won't exist in that world and I don't have the leverage to require it to exist.

Apple does and that's why I choose their products.

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

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