I wonder if there is a way we place these App Store decisions into the hands of a third party. Either that or break Android away from Google and forbid them from colluding.
how do you recoup your investment then when making software? wont everyone just pirate/duplicate it?
The GP said software should be bought like everything else... but everything else can’t be easily duplicated and shared... so how will that work?
So the problem is: you break capitalism, hard.
Nope. Better alternative would probably be some sort of blockchain thing with reviews baked in and maybe authority nodes (devs with experience) could validate/clear apps from having viruses/etc... or just have a reporting mechanism so apps get pulled when suspicious.