[ratww]

> I'm personally happy to stay inside Apple's ecosystem

I used to believe that I'd stay inside the Apple ecosystem if this ever happened, but the ecosystem has become a total dumpster fire in the last few years IMO.

The App Store itself is riddled with 99% crap apps, there's a lot of advertisement that really puts me off, the macOS Store results are mostly copycat apps or very suspicious stuff (although most of the time the real Apps aren't even there), their own apps (Music, TV, AppStore itself) are buggy as heck for me, there's an incredible amount of notification spam from otherwise useful apps (bank app, Uber, delivery app, etc). They've lost control.

Opening up is more necessary than ever, for multiple reasons.

[Hamuko]

I detest the App Store ads. They can't even be making that much money, but they completely undermine the reliability of the App Store.

[ksec]

>They can't even be making that much money

Apple's Search Ad made $2B a year in 2020. And estimated to be $2.5 to $3B in 2021.