Why not stop playing middleman, and act like the podcast app - aggregate RSS feeds of self hosted apps. I can already answer the above question - because the a

Why not stop playing middleman, and act like the podcast app - aggregate RSS feeds of self hosted apps. I can already answer the above question - because the app store's primary intent is to exert Apple's control over what software even runs on hardware apparently owned by the end user. Imagine a fridge maker controlling what groceries their customers can stock in the fridge, though they've bought the fridge outright - that's exactly what Apple has normalized in general purpose computing