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Finally a torrent client

Nice!

3rd party app stores are screaming porn, scam and low quality apps to me. I‘d stick with the Apple app store.

They are inevitable but I do wonder how they would work. I’m sure Apple will have nothing to do with them other than allowing a store onto their platform.

Stores need to be run which cost time and money. Who would you be buying an app from; I suspect it won’t be Apple so good luck if you have a complaint or getting your money back or it screws your device.. Devs will have to handle and manage secure payments systems - extra cost. Devs will have to pay the store for being included and managed in it.

Companies like Epic and dating apps were only interested in grasping yet more money from customers with fewer protections

Get ready for lower App Store prices overall, the proliferation of new iPhone app stores (Amazon, Microsoft, and some 3rd parties), and a spawning of some really garbage apps and malware.

Apple may be monopolizing, but they have the strictest standards for app approval. This means iOS apps which don't update to adopt new iOS look/feel and APIs stop getting approved. With a 3rd party app store, we'll start to see apps that look 'old' because Apple can't reject them from a 3rd party app store. And of course, we'll see new malware that Apple also can no longer reject.

Still, I expect Apple to make it glaringly obvious to users that non-Apple apps are sketchy (probably a warning box every time they are launched) and it will eventually look a lot like the current situation on Android.

All i care about is supporting sideloaded apps + notifications. Hope it comes before the year ends.

Big W

Yeah, in the end, people will use what they want to use. I'd very much doubt that in the end, it is going to be the profit centre that all the companies hankering for it think it is.

I mean, the eu tried it with browsers. For five years, they got Microsoft to display a browser choice when you install windows. Perhaps hoping that their homegrown browser would be the choice of Europeans.

In the end, the one that benefitted is Google with Chrome. Opera, the original browser that filed the anti-trust case in the first place and Mozilla who joined later, both lost out, and currently only held around 3% and 5% of the market share in the EU.

I don’t understand how people think this is a win?! I DO NOTV want to download 7 different app stores to get all the apps I want. Look at the state of Windows gaming for inference. Got more launchers than games ffs, can’t even keep track anymore.