So you lied when you said ‘no one is asking for this’.
> If I was wrong, you’d have been able to respond with an example.
> Qubes OS.
You do realize that isn’t completely secure.
> Last time was the EBook settlement. That was over five years ago.
So what?
> I guess you aren’t aware of Epic’s case. Epic's case isn't getting very far
Complete bullshit. Their case is proceeding as they planned and oral arguments are to be heard soon.
> and it's quite possible that it would not have arisen at all if Apple had shown any interest at all at managing it's own opening rather than putting itself at risk of being opened by others.
You do realize that doing something because otherwise you’ll be forced to, is the same as being forced to?
Also, that paragraph is an amazing piece of Orwellian writing. Have you considered writing for an authoritarian politburo?
> Erm, you do realize that these technologies have nothing to do with preventing scam apps in stores, right? Sure they do. They are all examples of products that are differentiated from others in the same space by their focus on security. Thus, in the realm of competing app stores, there could be stores that exist that focus on secure, privacy-focused apps, just as there are already app stores such as F-Droid that differentiate themselves by focusing on FOSS apps. One could reasonably expect that if iOS supported multiple app stores, there would be stores that tried to focus on the luxury high-end aspect of the platform by offering carefully curation. Third-party app curation services already exist.
So you expect users to choose between thousands of stores?
> The counterclaim, that a single scam free store would have all of the apps in it is obviously false because the premise is a future with multiple stores. Actually, the simplest counterclaim is to point at the current and past existence of alternate app stores such as Cydia or the Altstore, which do in fact contain apps that customers want anyway.
They don’t have all the apps and they aren’t scam free.
Also they are tiny experiments used by enthusiasts and are completely unrepresentative of what will happen when several billion dollar corporations and VC backed plays open stores.
