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by the_solenoid 1752 days ago
You can (I guess to an extent). But, you cannot use iOS however you see fit - it's probably in that wall of text you agree to every time it updates.

I get all these laws etc, but they are all at the behest of other big business who wants to take the ecosystem apple made and profit MORE off of it.

This whole thing does not help small devs, or consumers. I would argue apples PR stance that it actively basically harms consumers is 100% spot on.

The problem may be that people in ios have grown to not be looking over their shoulders for scams, but all of this will just bring about that exact thing.

The grift as soon as ios/app store opens up will be insane. You can't stop it in an open platform, and again, the average tech user is not at all savvy about tech.

There are probably good solutions to this, but so far nothing out in public is anything but self-serving of already monied interests.