~30% of Apple's total value could be attributed to the App Store alone. That's a ~$1T company.
If you think the product is awful - I don't know what to tell you.
Next, are you going to tell me the iPhone is awful and Nvidia's GPUs, too?
Look, just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean it's awful.
The App Store could be better. It doesn't suck.
Lots of things suck and make money, tons of money. OPEC absolutely sucks and makes tons of money, are you going to tell me “OPEC could be better. It doesn’t suck.” Monopolies and cartels don’t just suck, they are horrible, they are the biggest antagonists in our lives, because everyone’s income is someone else’s expense, and we don’t all work for Apple or OPEC.
> The App Store sucks.
It needs an iCloud log in, so you can't install free software on a kiosk without a throw away account. Which is hard to set up.
Why do you first need to 'get' an app and then install it?
How many affirmations do you need?
If apple truly is bringing the market what it wants at a price folks find reasonable surely this competition wouldn't impact anything!