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US law should never have allowed it. That is without passing anything new.

The OS controlling the software that can run on it is absolutely illegal. So you don't get to call something an "official app store" when the notion is illegal. Regulators may not regulate, but we don't change how we describe things factually.

Just look at the poor security record of these "official" app stores. They are not official anything.

The OS controlling the software that can run on it is absolutely illegal.

But that is a different thing from having an official app store. App stores and package managers are the same thing, and Linux distros with total freedom have official package managers and repositories.

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