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There are non-google app store places to get apps though. APKpure, for example.

• Beltiras 8y ago
  What fraction of a percent is the market share in app installs?
• annabellish 8y ago
  Sure, and there's places other than amazon to sell. That doesn't matter when the Play store, or Amazon, controls the majority of all sales. How much money are people making on APKpure? Is it enough to support a dozen software engineer salaries? Didn't think so, no. Getting booted off of the Play store does not mean your app is impossible to share, but it decimates the size of your audience - worse, even. Will even one in one hundred be left?
  • nradov 8y ago
    Amazon has about a 44% e-commerce market share in the US, which is huge but not yet a majority.
• realharo 8y ago
  I think a PWA (progressive web app), that people get directly through your website, is a more viable alternative. As long as you don't need some native-only functionality of course.
• blunte 8y ago
  Indeed there are, but most people are wisely taught to avoid them as there is more risk of installing an app that may have nefarious (hidden) behaviors. So practically speaking, distributing your app outside of Play store is going to severely limit your reach. I'd rather build a web app and try to get people to create a "desktop" shortcut.