I’m a retired programmer (They called me, officially, a “Senior Lead Software Engineer,” but, well, that’s just a pay grade, not management. I was just a pretty good programmer). Made a good living in Windows DB software, but since retirement I have luxuriated in the “Apple Ecosystem.” My wife and I have 2 iPhones, 3 MacBooks (2 Pro 1 Air), and 2 iPads, and love the interaction they share. There’s just nothing else available that compares favorably.
I hate the company and its pinko management, but the same applies to Microsoft, Google, and most of the rest. I love Apple products, though. Sigh.
This (the perceived AppStore threat) is not much of an issue, though. You can use Twitter just fine in your browser, whichever of the many options you use. This brouhaha is just the next verse in the libs’ little tantrum. They’ll be trying to defenestrate someone else next week.
That said, if Musk, or Starlink, or Tesla makes a smartphone, I’m gonna have to have one, just because!. It will be great.
You could be right. But then its always good to make emergency plans when you are dealing with fat left Big Tech.
Musk could study/talk to the guy at Gab to see how how survived after having Gab removed from the app stores.