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Microsoft could offer one of the first third-party app stores on iPhones - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)

submitted 11 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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[–] alcyoneous@midwest.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I definitely agree that they will try, but I’m sure the average FB/Insta/Threads user won’t go through the process of installing a third party store just for those apps, particularly when they’re already available on the App Store. With something like Fortnite that’s not available I could see it. But with Meta products I doubt it, particularly with the older, less tech savvy crowd that tends to use them.

[–] mmmmmsoup@lemmy.today 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wager meta and Microsoft etc the ones big enough to make their own store will pull their apps from apples App Store. Metas store will be the exclusive place to download instagram and what’s app, and the average user will begrudgingly download one extra app to get stuff working again and then forget about it and never open it again.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

And just like Steam showed, most of them will come running back after realising what a mistake it was.