No one is mandating first class alternative stores on iOS, merely the ability to download apps from third party stores or to sideload .ipa files.
> This is made up and has no validity.
Your Apple bashing is baseless and has no place in a reasoned discussion such as this.
> More fantasy. After years of public statements to the contrary this is not realistic.
Your lack of sources and petty commentary debases this conversation and discredits your own position.
> They may hold the greatest fault, but facilitating scammers and then blaming them is kinda silly.
Allowing alternative app stores is no more facilitating scammers than the present situation of Apple failing to enforce its own app store's promises and failing to prosecute existing scammers.
> Apple is taking responsibility for reducing scams. Let’s not stop them.
A claim with zero evidence.
> A claim with zero evidence.
How many scam apps with annual revenue of $5m were on the App Store in 2010?
> There can be simply more scams being attempted and so more slipping through. Indeed this would be expected in a growing market.
A claim with zero evidence.
> The only one along with everyone else who understands computer science.
This is made up and has no validity.
> Nobody in history has ever produced a perfectly secure operating system.
It is clear from this discussion that you are not a fan of Apple. Please seek to reduce your own bias when attempting to have a serious conversation.
> No anti-trust regulator would allow Apple to block apps installed by other stores.
When was the last time any regulator acted against Apple in a substantiative way, in the United States?
> This is of course nonsense.
A claim with zero evidence.
> Stores won’t compete on security. They’ll compete for customers using all the usual mechanisms - buying exclusives, tying their stores to other services and products, heavy marketing, and discrediting their competitors.
Not only does that ignore the popular niche of security- or privacy-oriented technology (e.g. the Tor browser, the Blackphone, Telegram, Signal, the entire following article,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-focused_operating_sys...
It also ignores that projects in the smartphone space such as F-Droid, or even Librem Purism or Pinephone, all revolve around business models that are not based on the sort of cutthroat commercialism you believe is ubiquitous. Certainly it is behavior that Apple does not indulge in.
> Even if a store did exist that was less scammy than Apple’s, it simply wouldn’t have everything a customer wanted anyway.
A claim with zero evidence.
