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by luuurker 667 days ago
Do you know anyone that has any of that old crapware on their Macs or had their Mac infected by malware in the past 5 or 10 years? I don't. And they can go to a website, download and install any app they want.

What about Android, which lets you sideload apps? How many people do you know that sideload apps or have installed a malicious app from outside the Play Store?

Yes, the App Store was and is important, but you need to look at other platforms if you really think that Apple allowing app sideloading (proper sideloading, not that shit they're doing in the EU) is going to take us back to the days of browser toolbars. iOS is not Windows XP.