“New options would add more competition” to app stores, the company says.
I like the increase in competition, but my concern is for the 90+% of users who really don’t know what they’re doing. Can we be sure that all these alternative app stores will properly enforce security through their apps? At least the iOS app store and Google Play have some standards regarding apps that are actual malware, but could we trust every company to do this?
The “anti-consumer” approach of restricting apps that violate standards may very well be the best one for most people. I support the DMA and the right to sideload but I’m concerned about the impact it will have. Maybe we’ll go back to the early 2000s days of PC malware.
More competition is good, but Facebook isn’t exactly my first choice to trust as an app provider - I’d rather have Microsoft. Maybe they’d even add some sort of Game Pass experience.
Sorry, but whenever I see Meta’s logo I just think “blue balls.”
What even happened to Farmville and all those apps that used to run through Facebook?
Maybe it’s actually not that bad an idea. I’m pretty curious to see how this turns out on iOS specifically.
