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Comment by halfnormalform | Hacker News Reader

Because they sell your digital soul to advertisers.

Which is exactly what would happen if there were third party app stores.

It would be a race to the bottom where they all ended up with zero margins but where your data is sold to third parties.

Nobody would stop a quality alternative from holding out. Not unlike Apple surviving the onslaught of cheap PC clones.

How does me being able to install an application i downloaded from F-Droid, GitHub or whatever other place i might trust or even developed myself on my phone without having to pay or get Apple's permission mean that Apple will sell my data to 3rd parties?

Not GP, but if enough people were conditioned to install their apps from sources outside of the appstore, Apple may end up seeing their AppStore margins shrink and do a pivot to selling user data.

That's not it, even with the numbers Apple touts they are getting from the App Store, they could comfortably live without.

It's the third party app stores that would sell the aggregate data instead of taking a cut off sales.

But that isn't something that has to happen, only something that Apple may choose to do. They do not have to, however.

> Which is exactly what would happen if there were third party app stores.

there already are lots of third-party android app stores, if you look at the variants of android packaged and shipped on new-in-box phones in mainland china.

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