While alternative app stores operate independently and are required by EU law, Apple is still in a position to exert some control. This became apparent a few weeks ago, when iTorrent users suddenly ran into trouble when installing the app.

Thought this was an interesting story, since it’s pretty analagous to the recent Android situation, with third party app stores being enabled to some extent, but the company retaining ultimate censorship power.

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    8 hours ago

    It isn’t. I don’t particularly care for phones, and nobody mentioned phones specifically.

    Edit: Though there are plenty of linux phones or linux for android phones.

    Sadly, there are very few Linux tablets, so we thought we’d give an option.