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I'll give you 1 link. The rest you can easily search "Apple app store malware" and find dozens of articles about them.
https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/malicious-apps-millions-downloads-apple-google-app-stores
And I've already stated how that's incorrect.
Then don't fuckin do it?
Freedom to choose where and how you get your software? The horror!
You save a significant amount of money from not paying Apple's bullshit taxes just to install software made for their hardware.
You linked to an article about apps that can no longer be installed because they were removed.
This is only possible because of Apple's walled garden.
Which I chose to buy into. A choice that you all want to diminish and take away. I already had the option of using android operating system based phones. I did it for a long time. I like the walled garden because it is run by a company that cares about privacy and security. They make it very difficult for malicious actors (such as Epic, or Meta, or even Google) to track and sell your data.
I chose to buy into this and want these protections.
Having an alternative app store or sideloading removes Apple from being able to protect against those types of attacks.
And if you believe Epic Games will lower the price of items in Fortnight or any other game, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Aside from giving away games for free to try and pull you to their store, game prices aren't better on the Epic Games Store than they are on Steam, for example.
This won't end up with any noticeable price change in the already budget gaming sphere that is iOS games, and we all know it.
But it might help people pirate games more, which is good, I guess?
I can't tell if you're actually this stupid or just trolling.
There were 9 apps this researcher alone found. It doesn't matter that they were removed. They were installed thousands of times prior, and these apps are constantly in and out of the App Store.
Now let's ignore that entirely, your other presumption is that literally no one else is capable of this sort of filtering, which completely proposterous.
Why do you keep straight up lying? No one wants to take away your choice to continue doing exactly what you're already doing. What's happening is that you want to take away every other Apple owner's choices, and receive literally nothing in return, because you maintain an ignorant view of how app stores work.
By the way, all of this is exactly how Mac computers work right now, so I hope you don't have any of those dangerous machines. But judging by your fanboyism, I'm assuming you do.
Just more blatant lies.