Neither of those will help when some company whose app I want to use says “Hey, our app is only available on Evil Store. Install that first and enable all permissions”
This did not happen on Android, show me 2 or 3 example of a must have app that an USA citizen has to side load? There is not otherwise I assure the Apple PR army would have jumped on that occasion.
Also as I said the USA is not in EU, so Meta/Facebook will still have no choice then put a iOS app of WhatsApp in the Store.
I am 100% sure that this is FUD, reality shows that there is no must use app that a developer refuses to put on the Google Play store because they are evil, the apps are either not allowed in the store because ToS or the apps are small side projects.
