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Guidy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

See I bet you think that would make things better, don’t you?

It won’t. It will make them so much worse.

Unless the EU (government) runs it, you’re going to get the world’s shadiest App Store or Sores possible.

“Just don’t use the shady ones then.”

That’s great until:

  1. It’s your SO or kid accessing it and they don’t know any better.
  2. You just bought something (an appliance, a vehicle, an FPV drone, whatever) and it requires you to use an app, and that app is an exclusive on the shadiest App Store possible.

“That doesn’t happen on android!”

It will absolutely happen with Apple, because there’s so much money that will be up for grabs.

I hope you like signing up with all your personal data and credit card information on app stores that make Apple look like saints, because that’s where this is headed, and sadly you’ll drag me with you.

Because again this hypothetical thing you bought might be a family member buying it, so it won’t even be up to you at that point.

This is what I see happening in the future.

The way to avoid it is to get rid of app stores completely, and have users download and install apps one by one. Like that’s going to happen.

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