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> Then we'll have to trust that all of these companies have the same level of competence to prevent malware that Apple does (narrator: "they won't").

This is a losing argument. We've already seen that the Apple store doesn't/can't prevent clones and fakes with information collecting inserts from overwhelming the originals.

Another store might actually do this better.

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They already can do it better on Android!

This is a ridiculous caricature of reality.

If anything, empirically we've seen that Apple runs a much tighter ship wrt scams and malware than Android and 3rd party friendly platforms. Especially from the perspective of non-tech mass consumer, who are incredibly well served by Apple's model.

Legislating / ruling Apple's closed model to be illegal is the true harm to consumer choice and freedom.

When you only have two choices of operating system for phones, there is not choice. It's a duopoly; there's nothing competitive or pro-consumer in having to lump the entirety of your mobile OS feature sets in two camps and damn anything else that doesn't remotely resemble that.

Sorry but Toyota doesn't have its business model harmed by being able to go to my mechanic to tune a car. If Apple wants to put three layers of dialogues to open up customization, so be it.

I have no sympathy for a trillion-dollar company and their "choice".

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