Fear and Loathing in the App Stores

I presented a talk on the FOSDEM main track in Brussels last weekend titled “Fear and Loathing in the App Stores” ( abstract ). It was amazing to see so much interest in the topic, and I had a lot of great conversations afterwards with folk who shared the alarm at the lack of choices, competition, and freedom. Following is my draft of the talk. My speaker notes weren’t working, so the talk as…