If there is a 30% price difference in the stuff they buy, sure they will. Otherwise, people wouldn't go shopping across town, drive 5-10km more than they would

If there is a 30% price difference in the stuff they buy, sure they will. Otherwise, people wouldn't go shopping across town, drive 5-10km more than they would need. I don't get arguments like these. If it's cheaper, people will switch over time. Not all of them, and it's going to be a trickle more than a mass exodus but they will do the "sideloading" aka installing apps from non centralized source, the norms in computing since forever... The privacy/security arguments are marketing bullshit that Apple came up with because they suck on the security side (previously their stuff was "secure" because nobody really cared about it) so they went with a brute force "we control everything" way of "solving" the problem. And all the privacy nonsense are just attacks on the business models of their competitors, they are not any better when it comes to ethics. Their "sideloading" restriction is like a dumb parent who make extremely strict interdiction about consuming alcohol. The first opportunity the kid gets you will find him drunk out of his mind. Education works, blanket interdiction like prohibition are historical oddities that are unsustainable. There are risks in life, people need to accept them and move on...