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While true, no store has the ability to prevent other stores from opening in the same city either Your comparison of Google Play being like a normal store, wo
by syshum 7y ago
While true, no store has the ability to prevent other stores from opening in the same city either
Your comparison of Google Play being like a normal store, would then make Android the town the store is in.
Would your position be that Walmart should be allowed to pay off the town to prevent Kroger from opening?
- felipelemos 7y agoIn that case Apple fits in your example, not Google, as they don't prevent you to install any other store.
- rnotaro 7y agoLike any other app not from the play store Google Play allows you to install other app marketplaces. You just got a warning the first time you install the alternative store. It's just incredibly hard and not worth it to start an alternative legit store unless you are huge with something that customers really want and that is not available somewhere else. (ie: Epic Games with the Epic Store for Fortnite)
- syshum 7y ago>>It's just incredibly hard and not worth it to start an alternative legit store unless you are huge Even amazon failed at this, so it is not just incredibly hard, the road blokes Google puts in place for people wanting to create another store is defacto impossible. Further they they are more extreme then what Microsoft did in the 1990's with IE that caused an AntiTrust violation and they were forced to easily allow other browsers and allow them to be changed as the default I am not sure why Google can get way with what they do, even less sure how Apple gets away with it
- newen 7y agoGuessing tech companies learned their lesson in the 90s and started sending lobbyist to Washington.