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What if Apple/Google weren't allowed to operate their personal app stores, and instead each was managed by for-profit 3rd parties? They'd be small enough and f
by inanutshellus 7y ago
What if Apple/Google weren't allowed to operate their personal app stores, and instead each was managed by for-profit 3rd parties?
They'd be small enough and focused enough that their only option for survival would be trust.
- Faark 7y agoThat's hardly a stable solution. It would start out nicely, but some of them would start eating up the market due to network effects. Then turn evil... If you make network effects harder (e.g. it extremely easy to submit apps to all of them), I don't see this not becoming a competition over price. And security is expensive. You'd have to prevent people search some nice apps on your store, then downloading the same on a different store with lots of shit tier apps as well, if it saves them your 30% tax.