What I'm worried about is if the next time we open WhatsApp we see a splash message that says "Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are moving to the Meta Store! Please restart your phone and follow these easy steps to continue using these apps." App developers have a lot more influence on mobile devices than they do on desktop OSes. This change would shift even more power to those large developers.
You can say a lot of negative things about Apple, but their incentives lined up with the end users more often than companies like Meta and Google.
You can say a lot of negative things about Apple, but their incentives lined up with the end users more often than companies like Meta and Google.