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Re:iDOS 2 will be gone soon by salamandersauce on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:23PM (#27925522)
But that software is clearly stuff you don't want and aren't interested in since it breaks Apple's restrictions so what's the problem? Just learn to live without it just like you've learned to live without emulators, IDEs, etc. in the App Store already.

Users that want the choice can choose. Devs that want the choice can choose. You can stay in your walled garden. And considering the uptake of alternate app stores on Android this seems like FUD to me.

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Re:iDOS 2 will be gone soon by user-the-name on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:41AM (#27928214)
Whether software offers something I want and whether software does shady things behind the scenes are often completely separate things. If it were allowed, I am sure a lot of the apps I use today would do shadier things. But it's not allowed, so they can't.

If they had the option of going to a less restrictive store, they probably would, and they would do things I am not happy with there. That would be a loss for me.

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