If you look at macOS (where the App Store is not required), there are more kinds of apps, more app purchasing models (for ex. upgrades) and consumers overwhelming buy apps outside of the App Store.
It's also pretty easy to see how alternative App Stores become super popular.. For ex. Do you think current Steam users would like to be able to cross-buy games for PC, Mac and iOS? That seems like a no brainer and huge win for consumers by itself.
Under the rules of feminism, progressivism, etc, women aren't allowed to want certain things. That includes wearing hot pants, being romanced by prince charming, etc.
Your entire comment is ridiculous stuff you made up and attribute to progressives, then you hold that up and say "look how ridiculous this is!" None of it even passes the most basic common sense test... If you spend time any progressives, you'll see girls wearing shorts and tank tops with no bras. There's nobody pulling out rulers to measure skirt length. You might even see guys wearing hot pants. Part of the civil rights movement for women (notably not spear-headed by conservatives) included wearing mini-skirts. Guess who was against it?
Seems to me like that all makes sense.
Except of course, it's obvious bullshit. The reason for disabling web apps is because the Safari engine goes out of its way to cripple the usefulness of web apps. If you could switch to Chrome or potentially another engine, that engine could easily make native OS features available to web apps, making web apps as powerful as native ones. A user could then install a web app icon on the home screen, and you'd have a system as easy to use as the App Store, but completely outside of it.
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