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Google Play is a bad example here because you can absolutely use app stores like F-Droid or Amazon to get content onto your device. Arguably, they have problem
by vertis 6y ago
Google Play is a bad example here because you can absolutely use app stores like F-Droid or Amazon to get content onto your device.
Arguably, they have problems as well, but it's not an apples to apples (no pun intended) comparison.
One has a completely locked down ecosystem that people are worried to speak against lest they lose access to it.
The other has alternatives, albeit ones without huge traction. It does allow you to make decisions about whether Google Play gives value (discovery, etc).
- scarface74 6y agoSo how has that worked out for developers who chose to use alternate stores?
- corkmask 6y agoYou are confusing market access and distribution. If I wanted alot of eyes on my app and I saw a benefit from the appstore then I would pay the 30%. All I want is being able to give to MY customers, who I paid MY money to acquire, a native app. Apple is refusing to allow this, unless I pay protection money. Textbook rent seeking
- vertis 6y agoBelated. I can think of many exampled that have worked out. In some cases, apps like Gambling apps are not allowed to use the Play store at all, and yet manage to just fine and get installed directly as APKs. It definitely varies business to business, and I'm not saying that I wouldn't put my app on Google/Apple, but that is because I do need the discovery. In the case of Basecamp, they bring their own customers and network. This is true of a lot of big companies and Enterprise apps (some of which have exceptions already).