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I've used the Amazon, Samsung and Oculus stores on Android. And I think direct APK downloads from Humble a long time ago.

• mrtksn 6y ago
  Good for you but are you going to pay me few thousand dollars a month so I can sustain an independent business? Probably not. What I need is access to a lot of people who are willing to pay me a small sum each for the software that I make. Multiple appstores with uneven access is unlikely to help with that and would probably increase my development costs too. That's not that big a problem for established and big companies but it is something that I am not looking forward to.
  • Apocryphon 6y ago
    Deploying your software to these different stores probably doesn't involve as much friction as you think it does, and if there is a proliferation of stores one could imagine services springing up in the space to facilitate multi-store deployments and to make the process easier on developers. I mean, if it really is such a worry to you then someone will make a product to help with it because it is a business opportunity. TestFlight, after all, was invented because beta-testing Apple's apps used to be (more) awful.