Exactly. I can understand uninformed consumers accepting this kind of bullshit because they don&#x27;t realize it could be so much better. But it boggles my mind that people who have used a real package manager will put up with the exploitative, arbitrary, restrictive app store nonsense <i>and</i> put down real money for copies of software.<p>So much work in the phone ecosystem goes into trying to tame the beast of closed-source, untrusted, adversarial code trying to show ads, track the user, sell them in-app purchases, and so on. These are all unnecessary complications that a fully open-source phone ecosystem (with no app store, but a real open software ecosystem like Linux) would solve.