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As long as you are willing and able to pay Apple $100 a year to install your own apps on your own phone.

Don't you only need to pay $100 to distribute the app, right?

If this is just about you saving $100, why all the rhetoric about walled gardens?

It's not about $100 a year, although that's a real barrier. It's that you and I are not in control over what software our hardware we own can run. Do I lease my smartphone from the company or do I own it, because it sure doesn't feel like I own it when I have to pay someone a $100 a year to run my software on my device. It feels like I'm being robbed. Robbed of money, robbed of choice, robbed of control.

I feel as though some people spent many years doing painstaking, world class engineering work, and I paid them so that I could use it.

After I paid them they continued to support me videos and direct communication to help me use what I'd paid for, and they took seriously the problems I identified.

I'm sorry that you consider this being 'Robbed'. I had my car stolen once, and my house broken into another time, and those things didn't feel good.

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