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I don’t really want to use a 3rd party AppStore, but I’m glad they will now exist.

What I hope is that competition makes apple up their game a bit on the AppStore.

1) I hope they fix search. AppStore search is a joke, just awful.

2) Their 20% cut is too high

If they’re competing with 3rd parties I can see both these getting fixed ASAP, whereas currently they have no motivation.

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I don't want to fearmonger too much, but you may not have a choice in using 3rd party App Stores, assuming you use popular apps like Facebook or Instagram. The large tech companies may remove their apps from the original App Store and only use third parties that allow them to do the ad tracking they want to do.

I think the threat of Meta forcing users to migrate to a hypothetical 3rd party app store is overblown-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30808926

Now, they might try to entice users with deals and such (sort of like Epic's gung ho free games discounts on their gaming platform against Steam), but I highly doubt they'd pull their apps from the official App Store. Too much risk of blowback.

Your terms are acceptable.

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