I understand that.
Let us be adults and download apps that aren’t in the App Store.
I can download any app on Mac so what exactly is their excuse except for being greedy and hindering innovation.
Buying an iphone is voluntary.
They haven't a monopoly on smartphones.
We'll lose this case everytime.
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Just look at their segmented financial statements,
Computers are a dying biz for them, and require that level of flexibility to have any users at all.
Meanwhile their smartphone business is stable,
With their fasting growing biz being app store & apple services such as news, music, tv.
They're protecting their shareholders, not their fringe userbase who cares.