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Because they sell your digital soul to advertisers.
by halfnormalform 6y ago
Because they sell your digital soul to advertisers.
- threeseed 6y agoWhich is exactly what would happen if there were third party app stores. It would be a race to the bottom where they all ended up with zero margins but where your data is sold to third parties.
- toyg 6y agoNobody would stop a quality alternative from holding out. Not unlike Apple surviving the onslaught of cheap PC clones.
- badsectoracula 6y agoHow does me being able to install an application i downloaded from F-Droid, GitHub or whatever other place i might trust or even developed myself on my phone without having to pay or get Apple's permission mean that Apple will sell my data to 3rd parties?
- jimmydorry 6y agoNot GP, but if enough people were conditioned to install their apps from sources outside of the appstore, Apple may end up seeing their AppStore margins shrink and do a pivot to selling user data.
- yoz-y 6y agoThat's not it, even with the numbers Apple touts they are getting from the App Store, they could comfortably live without. It's the third party app stores that would sell the aggregate data instead of taking a cut off sales.
- badsectoracula 6y agoBut that isn't something that has to happen, only something that Apple may choose to do. They do not have to, however.
- walrus01 6y ago> Which is exactly what would happen if there were third party app stores. there already are lots of third-party android app stores, if you look at the variants of android packaged and shipped on new-in-box phones in mainland china.
- neolog 6y agoSource?