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Apple: builds their entire software ecosystem on free, open-source foundations.

Also Apple: better have a million euros if you want to even start distributing software.

The best use case for an external app store is free open-source software, like we have on the Android side with F-Droid. Apple stopped that before it even started. Jeez.

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Note that third party app stores like F-Droid still aren’t first-class citizens like Google Play, since every installation still needs to be confirmed by an os popup, they can’t automatically install updates on most phones.

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TBF if it wasn’t without a popup it would be insanely easy to install malware without the user knowing

You even get that popup on windows when installing something.

The only thing I see a problem with is that something like fdroid can’t be installed from the play store

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