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Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by pwdisswordfish9 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:37AM (#33908273)
The reasons for the absence are pretty self-explanatory. iOS itself is proprietary.

First, someone would need to initiate a project to create a free software clone of iOS, like ReactOS re Windows or even GNU re UNIX. That's a worthwhile project in and of itself.

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Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by mfuzzey on Thursday December 08, 2022 @03:39PM (#33913038)
The OS itself being proprietary isn't a reason to not have sideloading or alternative stores.

Windows is proprietary too yet you've always been able to download a .EXE from arbitary web sites.

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Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by pwdisswordfish9 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:02PM (#33914259)
> isn't a reason to not have sideloading or alternative stores

Who argued otherwise? On the topic of F-Droid in particular not being available for iOS, there _is_ a reason behind it.

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Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by Jyaif on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:58AM (#33909291)
> iOS itself is proprietary.

That's not a reason at all.

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Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by pwdisswordfish9 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:36PM (#33910675)
F-Droid is a free software catalogue.
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