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by xhkkffbf 519 days ago
Realistically, it's not fair to put many of the costs of iOS development on the App store. They would need to do it anyway. And if there were no App store, they would still be designing their product as a collection of independent apps. That's what MacOS is anyway. So they would still need to build all of the features for supporting apps into iOS, even if they never allowed any outside apps.
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> And if there were no App store, they would still be designing their product as a collection of independent apps. That's what MacOS is anyway.

MacOS yes, but if they were just shipping a phone with built in applications it would look quite a lot different I'd imagine.