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No. Because if we didn’t depend on someone getting funded and paying apple yearly we could use community maintained software. Are there any open source SFTP clients for the iPhone? (For example) Using SSH and SFTP via anything other than ish really creeps me out honestly.

Linux doesn’t have an “App Store” instead you have to engage with the community and publish your app source code if you want it easily installed by most users. I guess that’s still not quite a “free for all” (although there’s nothing stopping users from installing whatever they want) but it’s certainly not as strict as what apple does.