With 5G coming the need for “apps” “approved” by Apple and Google will become less important. All of this stuff is web browser accessible and it’s fairly easy to put a web link button onto your device home screen that looks like an app button. Apple can control the apps, but they cannot control the browsers
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Lot of good that will do when T-mobile, AT&T and others start blocking things at the DNS level.
Most web-based “apps” blow chunks. No push notifications, shit navigation all running on some sort of Wordpress, joomla or drupal. People want and expect stand-alone apps nowadays.
That is where a VPN comes in to play.
They can’t see where you are going with that.
(they could block the VPN though)