How to stop syncing apps with itunes without deleting them from iphone?

Basically I don't want to sync my apps with itunes, because it takes up too much memory in my macbook. However every tome I uncheck the "sync apps" box it threatens me that all my apps will be deleted of my iphone!!!

Try this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3555070

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