> How come it's reasonable to force someone who _doesnt_ want the app store to be opened to competition to change? Are you asking why we have antitrust laws?

> How come it's reasonable to force someone who _doesnt_ want the app store to be opened to competition to change? Are you asking why we have antitrust laws? > I don't want the Meta store where Meta decide what level of API access their apps get And they shouldn't! Users should have full control over what data their apps can access, how often, with optional spoofing where it makes sense to stop apps from gating functionality behind invasive data collection. This should be an OS-level feature, not (poorly) enforced by the app store. Apple's superficial review process isn't going to spot malicious abuses of your data unless it's plainly obvious. > Your choice removes my only option of a curated app marketplace in favour of a marketplace that will allow for billion dollar companies to set their own rules on how I interact with their apps, rather than me delegating that to one trusted gatekeeper. How so? You can continue using whichever marketplace you trust. Meanwhile your privacy and security should be technological, OS-level guarantees. You don't need Apple's app store to stop apps from stealing your banking information. You need a secure operating system (which iOS advertises itself to be) which employs sandboxing and that offers fine-grained permissions which users can freely grant, deny, or spoof.