Would iPhone users be worse off if they gained the ability to use multiple diffe...

zepto · on Jan 17, 2021

Yes. They would lose the option to use one trusted store, and be forced to use set of different stores of varying different trust levels.

oblio · on Jan 17, 2021

Are you sure about that? Chinese phones use Chine app stores because Google products are banned in China, but outside of China 99% of apps are installed through the Play Store.

Why would iOS be any different?

zepto · on Jan 18, 2021

Because iOS has a very profitable app ecosystem that deep pocketed competitors (such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon) would buy into.

You can’t seriously imagine that at least these three plus TenCent/Epic wouldn’t create stores, likely within their existing Apps.