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Exactly. I can understand uninformed consumers accepting this kind of bullshit because they don't realize it could be so much better. But it boggles my mind that people who have used a real package manager will put up with the exploitative, arbitrary, restrictive app store nonsense and put down real money for copies of software.

So much work in the phone ecosystem goes into trying to tame the beast of closed-source, untrusted, adversarial code trying to show ads, track the user, sell them in-app purchases, and so on. These are all unnecessary complications that a fully open-source phone ecosystem (with no app store, but a real open software ecosystem like Linux) would solve.