Comment by rpdillon

Malware exists, but you are only focusing on the benefit of removing user freedoms. Can you provide a similar analysis of the costs, or do you just ignore them because they are hard to reason about?

F-Droid is a massive win for the mobile ecosystem, probably the last bastion of useful free software for mobile devices. Being able to build an APK at home and run it on my phone is the ideal way computers should be used. But you can't put a price on these freedoms.

You're advocating for a system that removes the least abusive app store so we can hand more control to the most abusive app store. I can't support that, especially when it's glaringly obvious that walled app store are neither necessary nor sufficient to provide safety for users.