Apple also makes apps themselves, and, just like AmazonBasics, has a tendency to clone popular apps (such a tendency that it has a name: to be "sherlocked").
To ignore the fact that Apple receives global platform app popularity data, which provides them a competitive advantage over every other app developer, is somewhat foolish.
Gatekeeper has security benefits, yeah. But this data, just like 3P sales stats to Amazon, has commercial value, even anonymized/aggregated, that permits them benefits over everyone else they are competing with in the app market.
Let's not conflate things that are good for users with things that are good for Apple, and be careful when assigning decisions exclusively to one bucket or the other.
I spoke yesterday on the societal dangers of giving Apple such a pass on privacy violations:
To ignore the fact that Apple receives global platform app popularity data, which provides them a competitive advantage over every other app developer, is somewhat foolish.
Gatekeeper has security benefits, yeah. But this data, just like 3P sales stats to Amazon, has commercial value, even anonymized/aggregated, that permits them benefits over everyone else they are competing with in the app market.
Let's not conflate things that are good for users with things that are good for Apple, and be careful when assigning decisions exclusively to one bucket or the other.
I spoke yesterday on the societal dangers of giving Apple such a pass on privacy violations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-7FpHvv-8