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Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by noirscape on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:33PM (#33975319)
> I understand that Google may decide to create their own store and take all their apps with them... this I can see being a very negative thing which may be needs regulation in itself. IDK what that would look like, but I don't use Google anyways because I have no trust in them. I don't trust them in the App Store so I wouldn't trust them with their own store.

If you already don't trust them in the App Store, why would you trust them in their own store to begin with? Sounds to me like you shouldn't use Google apps to begin with.

Most of their apps are very replaceable and with the arbitrary restrictions forcibly peeled back, the sole service that you can only get from them (YouTube) can finally get an iOS equivalent of NewPipe that doesn't need a hacked phone to be installed.

Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by MagicMoonlight on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:49AM (#33982298)
Because Apple forces them to comply with privacy rules in the App store. The google store won't