worth reading article says: the App Store is a trinket store

[szabesz]

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/83-mobliephone/11963-ten-years-of-the-apple-app-store.html

some highlights for TL;DR readers:

"...if it was a free market, then Apple would not have made more than an estimated $100 billion over the time, but programmers would be that much better off."

"No right of appeal and if you talk to journalists then Apple has no intention of helping you at all. That this is an authoritarian regime isn't a point that you can argue against."

"Windows Apps are almost as locked down as iOS apps. Only Google made the stupid mistake of letting Android go open source and it has been working steadily to take control back ever since. Assuming Android is still around in ten years time, my bet would be that the Play store will be just as much a walled garden as the others."

"The App Store is mostly full of small apps that do frivolous things - it's a trinket store. Let's get back to real computing."