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by Abishek_Muthian 2082 days ago
>But what if the alternative is no app stores? Anyone can install whatever software they want on their device from wherever they want it

There was already an open, accessible, free app store called - 'Internet Browser' upon which Internet was built. These companies undermined it in collusion with the duopolies to hoard more data from their customers and are now crying wolf.
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michaelkariv 2082 days ago
Do you mean web apps? Today they are powerful, but in 2008 browsers based web apps could not have access to a lot of things native apps could, I think, so native was inevitable, hence the AppStore.
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Abishek_Muthian 2081 days ago
>not have access to a lot of things native apps could

That's my point here -

>in collusion with the duopolies to hoard more data from their customers

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