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by sjwright 2647 days ago
It’s interesting. I think the bias against app installs is a psychological holdover from the “Add/Remove Programs” era of Windows where a program could install weird drivers, CPU-sucking daemons, software license protection crap—once you finally open the app up—a bloated and confusing GUI that ignores the platform’s sensible UI rules.

iPhone apps aren’t perfect but at least you know that they’ll uninstall cleanly and completely.