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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by PoignardAzur on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:14AM (#26979685)
I don't own an IPhone, so I can't say I'm happy or not about these choices, but at the very least they're not trivially wrong.

Forcing the ecosystem to use shared libs for common, expensive taks like browser engines, JITs, etc, has clear benefits in terms of storage and battery life.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by shawnz on Thursday April 29, 2021 @09:06AM (#26980660)
Exactly: they might make decisions which are not strictly wrong, but make the platform less useful for certain people/use cases. Eventually you might find that your most important (although niche) use cases have been killed in a death by 1000 cuts, and they specifically disallow any kind of workarounds.
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