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> I'm also paying Apple to curate my experience. Which is totally fine. But why not allow customers to make that decision? If the Apple App store truly delive

• ianmf 7y ago
  If Apple would allow customers bypass "the wall" by side loading apps, developers and companies will tell users to disable some security settings to install app from their website, creating a security issue for their users.
• macintux 7y ago
  Users have demonstrated repeatedly they’re unwilling to pay for anything when there’s a free alternative (broad strokes, obviously). So some significant chunk of Apple’s users would use a 3rd party app store and experience would be down, security would be a nightmare, people would have all sorts of complaints and Apple’s reputation would take a hit.
• sjwright 7y ago
  The curated model stops working the moment that there's any way to get around it, because enough developers will do what they think is in their best interest rather than the customer's. Anyway, the option for customers to "make that decision" exists and comes in the form of Android.
• yazaddaruvala 7y ago
  I do make that decision. I install very few apps. I use a browser for the majority of my non-messaging phone time. I explicitly don’t want the non-walled-garden stuff to be installable on my phone (by me or my friends or my kids). I don’t want 3rd-party stuff to have the same experience/performance as a native app, which I grant more trust. I like the visual cues, permissions management and temporality while using the browser for low trust or low value add content.