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The app was taken down because it had Andrew Tate's name on it, lets not kid ourselves.

Even if you were correct on why the app was taken down due to "it will cause violence", minus well ban all social media apps and messanging apps.

If the app was banned due to it being a scam (which is not the case), that is reasonable to protect users, but still sucks since even if the app was banned with the excuse of it being a scam, iOS users are SOL since there is no alternative way to really install apps on iOS.

An app won't kill anyone on its own. Just like how guns don't kill people, people kill people.

I mean, sure, I will almost always die on this hill - but for something that [Insert excuse here]

Now, if it was like an app that [Insert app that I like], sure.

Really bro? Lets say you liked Jimmy. Jimmy was a contraversal guy and Jimmy had the Jimmy app on the App Store. Then Apple took down the Jimmy app since they do not like Jimmy, Jimmy is too contraversal, Jimmy triggers too many people online.

You either die on this hill of being against censorship or you don't.

You do not have to like or support Andrew Tate to be against his app being taken off the App Store.

How is censorship good news? Yeah this is all about Andrew Tate, but that is not the point. The point is that censorship is bad and censorship can occur on centralized app stores were it is done for "politicial" reasons.

I don't care if you think Andrew Tate is evil, it is the action of banning an app because "we do not like you". That is the problem and Apple users have no choice since they are in a walled garden.

The reason why you should not have an iPhone. It is a walled garden and Apple is the ministry of truth in this walled garden.

Food ordering/delivery services are a double edge swords. Its convient but it "keeps you in your pod".

I am not bothered by these services as long I can still go to the restaurant itself and get the food in person.

Only an unpopular opinion to a nariccist.

Dart/Flutter allows for compiling native apps and allows for better device access.

I would not recommend react-native. I would recommened Tauri instead but Tauri does not compile apps for Android and iOS currently but has this on its roadmap.

True, I am all for Flutter and Tauri. However websites are better for sevices since it is not likely the company will release a fully open source app or APIs for developers to build apps for the service. There are many web clients out there that are open source and allow for a good private web experience.

And even if a company does release a FOSS app, it is hard to get the company to release the app on alternative app stores like F-Droid.

Also I do not want a million apps on my phone taking up space, that could be running in the background and harvesting my data. Websites or PWA are like one-time apps you load in the browser, use and the close to discard, especially when you use your browser private mode.

I refuse to use services that demand you use their app.

Services only need a website for the most part, not only is this easier for development cost but it is simplier to create a mobile friendly website instead of creating an Android app, iOS app and a desktop app.

Laugh now, cry later.

You need to get out of your echo chamber. If you did, you will see how absurd your comment is.