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Bingo. Wonder how all the Apple defenders like John Gruber are gonna spin this one. App Stores were always a mistake. Walled gardens were always a mistake. The
by kunai 6y ago
Bingo. Wonder how all the Apple defenders like John Gruber are gonna spin this one.
App Stores were always a mistake. Walled gardens were always a mistake. The people arguing that they were good because of security or whatever were arguing on behalf of a red herring. It's security theater. iOS has had, what, like 6 critical vulnerabilities in the past 5 years? What was the point? Quite literally only to limit what you can and can't run on your own device.
For all it's worth, I'm thrilled the Microsoft Store is dying a painful death and that most Windows apps continue to be installable via NSIS or MSIs.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agoI grew up before the mobile 'revolution' and I miss the days when just getting a setup.exe from a friend on a floppy disk and running it to install a piece of software did not feel like high treason.
- Ir0nMan 6y agoApp Stores were not a mistake, having only one App store allowed like Apple does is a mistake.