[lern_too_spel]

I get free games from EGS, just like I got free games from Amazon App Store. For the same reason that the Amazon App Store exists, I can also get open source apps from F-Droid, including apps like Newpipe that aren't allowed on the primary app store on the device.

Do you wish that the Mac App Store were the only way to get apps on your Mac?

[falcolas]

> I get free games from EGS

Free games are a marketing practice, nothing more. It's not a sustainable business practice, and it's paid for by Epic's exploitative Fortnight lootboxes. The "free games" will become part of a paid monthly subscription (or just go away entirely) when Epic feels like they have the audience they need.

And me? The value those free games might provide me is not worth the cost - being marketed to by a company whose values are quite the opposite of my own.

[lern_too_spel]

> Free games are a marketing practice, nothing more.

It's a marketing practice that would not happen without competing stores. The end result is user benefit.

> it's paid for by Epic's exploitative Fortnight lootboxes

Why does it matter to me how it's paid for? Does not allowing competing stores change where Epic or Amazon get their money? The end result is that I benefit from Epic and Amazon getting to compete.

> being marketed to by a company whose values are quite the opposite of my own.

I find Apple's values to be opposite to my own (selling low privacy devices and lying about it, preventing me from doing general computing on my devices, etc.). With competition, I would at least have a choice of finding an app distributer like F-Droid whose values are closer to mine were I to be stuck with an iOS device.

You still haven't answered the question about whether you would prefer if your Mac didn't allow you to install apps outside of it's app store.