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  1. Look my friends, you can embrace the truth with me: App Stores and Apps are bad. It's not just some specific sub-section policy that impacts a single corner of the ecosystem. It's the whole concept, the whole idea, the core practice. Phone Apps are bad.
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      The best situation would be if your phone had a browser, an email inbox and the tiny application that lets you dial phone numbers and send texts. Then you just use the open web for the rest.
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            They're monopolistic in the nature of the app store. Chronotope/1273064238500675584
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              They use their escalated privileges to spy on you and sell their data Chronotope/940599787686105088
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                They are filled with fraud acfou/1143108645208678400
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                  They are part of our nightmarish surveillance economy Chronotope/1134496477840064512
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                    They directly steal money Chronotope/1099338817436303360
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                      They operate in an environment with a total lack of clarity that makes them worrisome to use and abhorrent to privacy conscious users. Chronotope/1169971729097220096
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                        And prompts for them are yet another annoying popup we all have to deal with. dmarti/1224891477739757569
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                          We're having a big critical discussion about the nature of apps, their economy and the regulations we might want to apply to them... so let's push it all the way friends, let's push to get rid of them forever. Chronotope/1224889298664771584
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                            Down with apps!
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                              #DownWithApps
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