Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

when are we going to finally give up on the concept of the app store?

it is not efficient, it doesn't incentivize high quality products, and the web proves that security / safety can be done in an open way.

Apple killed the idea of PWAs being viable, similar to killing Flash. 20 years of vendor lock on will make mentality hard to change.

.. or enforcing & updating anti-monopoly policies

This case is more of a "lead a horse to water" situation. Even if Apple fully opened up PWAs there'd only be a small trickle of them as people developed to norms.

Its still worth pursuing. Hut the effects may not be what we desire.

> the web proves that security / safety can be done in an open way

A) the web is full of phishing and other scams, as well as tons of low quality garbage

B) the web achieves this security model by limiting applications to a browser sandbox, which imposes restrictions on what the software can do. This is a non starter for many native apps.