Are the apps actually uninstalled for real, or does the system just hide them to create the same appearance as uninstalling to satisfy legal requirements?
[1] https://webkit.org/blog/15443/news-from-wwdc24-webkit-in-saf...
> Apps that are removed, such as the App Store , can be re-downloaded using an "App Installation" section in the Settings app.
Whether that's really a redownload or restore from disk cache probably doesn't matter unless the EU starts to argue that it being available with 0 latency from disk is a competitive advantage.
via a different install mechanism? How do you install Windows apps without MS store?
- The choice screen thing didn't make one lick of difference, and:
- MSIE died of completely self-inflicted wounds anyway only a few years after this.
Perhaps these two facts, though they don't prove the 'choice screen' was bad, also did nothing to establish that approach as a proven way to promote competition, so regulators weren't moved to emulate it.
(Personally, I would argue that choice screens at a point in time when one option has overwhelming mindshare are pretty pointless. Everyone will choose the dominant one by recognition, except geeks who knew how to change defaults anyway, and confused newbies who are probably the ones who realistically should be using the most 'mainstream' option anyway.)
Worst case, a box where you type in the url for an ipa (and a restriction that you must have at least one keyboard installed; although if your keyboard always crashes...)
Even worse case, use iTunes on a computer to push apps to the phone, although that imposes a requirement of access to a computer. Maybe a way to push apps between iPhones.