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Most online marketplaces cost 30% - Steam, Google Play, App Store. That doesn’t make it alright, but no one is forcing you to write apps for iOS either.

• tobyhinloopen 8y ago
  These examples can be bypassed. You can release a pc game without steam, release an android app without google. But apple? Nope
  • votepaunchy 8y ago
    Android is not Google Play. You cannot release a Google Play app without paying Google.
    • jedberg 8y ago
      No but you can release an Android app without Google. You can't release an Apple app without Apple.
      • darkpuma 8y ago
        Exactly. You can distribute raw APKs. You can put your app on FDroid. You can put your app on the Amazon Appstore. You can create your own appstore to compete with Google's and Amazon's and FDroid. There are a lot of problems with Android, but an appstore monopoly isn't one of them.