[athrun]

> I guess I just like my tech stack to be as open and unrestrictive as possible.

Note that this is another area where you have this user vs. developer trade off.

- GPL or other copyleft licenses will put the user's rights above the developer's.

- MIT or BSD-style licenses will favor the developer rights above the end user's.

"open and unrestrictive as possible" is all relative depending on whether you are a user or a developer.

> The argument that Apple provides more safeguards is a bit flimsy in my opinion.

My point is that this is a market where people value different things. I value the safeguards Apple is putting in. I find they do a better job at it than their competition. But I fully understand that other people do not think so, or that they value other things more.

What I don't particularly like is some of these people turning to the State to force Apple to do things differently.

[Apocryphon]

Incidentally, the iOS App Store forbids GPL apps.

https://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance

Maybe? Might have changed since then.

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9500/is-apple...

One could imagine that if the platform was opened to side-loading, the first third party app store to gain popularity would not be one from Meta or Google, but an F-Droid analogue for FOSS hobbyists and purists.