Unless this user has never used a device running something other than iOS, they've already dealt with this.

But this concern requires a few things to be true:

- An alternative app store is created that does not employ any form of restriction to protect users from this

- Legitimate apps that an end user needs see value in publishing themselves on this alternative app store

- There is a critical mass of users that prefer the alternative app store, such that the legitimate app publisher no longer sees value in publishing to Apple's app store

- As a result, those users who would have preferred the privacy and safety that Apple provides are now forced to use the new app store

This is a possible doomsday scenario, but it's not clear to me that enforcing and protecting a market in which Apple is effectively guaranteed a profit on everyone else's apps is the right solution? If this were to happen, perhaps we address those apps through direct legislation that targets user privacy, akin to what the EU has started to move on? Or a solution similar to this.