Let's stop pretending that not being allowed to engage in "mining sensitive data" is the only reason a company has to not want to be on the app store. - Discri

Let's stop pretending that not being allowed to engage in "mining sensitive data" is the only reason a company has to not want to be on the app store. - Discrimination against entire fields of endeavor like emulators and streaming clients - 30% tax - Victorian era morality clause that has forced applications to make UX degrading changes for NSFW content - Anti-competitive behavior for anything that competes with Apple's own offerings, including e-books (audible), music (bandcamp), web browsers (Firefox/Chrome), and probably more I'm not thinking about right now. - No GPL on the app store If this were just about "Facebook is mad because they can't data mine and stay on the app store" there would be a much stronger case, but in the world we live in, Apple has abused their so-called "user advocate" position to advance their own interests at the expense of their competitors, and users, in many other ways. They did not have to do this. If you want to be upset at someone, be upset at Apple for inviting the typically heavy and imprecise hammer of the state when they could have just stayed in their lane and not behaved like greedy controlling puppet masters.