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There is nothing stopping you from using other app stores on android. Amazon has their own (amazon underground) and samsung have their own (galaxy store). There
by pmx 8y ago
There is nothing stopping you from using other app stores on android. Amazon has their own (amazon underground) and samsung have their own (galaxy store). There are others out there, too!
- onli 8y agoThere is F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/) especially. Horribly broken UI, but still a great app to get other (free!) apps.
- trickstra 8y agotry G-Droid for better UI
- Svoka 8y agoGoogle is de-facto monopolist if you want to make money off your apps/games. Company was publishing same game on basically all android stores, and returns were less than one hundredth comparing to the Play Store; even if it was featured in other stores.
- Faark 8y agoIts sad so few people can acknowledge strong network effects is all it needs to create a de-facto monopolist. Can you say what resources company invested to get listed on other stores? I'd expect it to be rather simple and would hope the tiny earnings would still pay for itself. But even for strategical reasons, I don't understand why even Google-competitors like Microsoft Office don't offer an optional PlayStore free download. At least for those not integrating Google services... and most of the apk's i got from "other" source did indeed work fine. But maybe there is just no way to avoid a tragedy of the commons without regulation.