[vbezhenar]

So you're happy as a consumer that developer's freedom is taken away from them, but you have more freedom. That's understandable, but you should realize that some developers value their freedom and will just avoid such a locked-down platform. There are plenty of apps missing in iPhone because of that.

[yazaddaruvala]

Good! As an iPhone user, I’ll wait for the app to become popular enough that Apple correctly integrates it.

Case and point, Swipe keyboards. It was the biggest missing feature for three years when I moved from Android to iPhone. I still preferred my iPhone!

[jbverschoor]

There’s no need to have access to things I don’t want them to.

There is no need for them to ask for my payment information in a way that can be fraudulent.

There are many reasons for them why they’d want to reduce subscription cancellation and other dark patterns.

There is no reason for them to be able to install anything, or run arbitrary code on my device.

If epic wants to do business with me, they can go through my secretary/lawyer/firewall (Apple).

I’m more than 10x likely to spend money on apps, so I think that more than evens it out.

Which apps are missing? I’m so t see any added value in another AppStore. Heck, I’d love for Apple to lockdown OS X so that adobe’s store/updater is banned. Wishful thinking

[pjmlp]

Developers are free to target other platforms, some of them are doing PlayStation exclusives.