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This is why I don't understand how Microsoft can't compete in the mobile market. They could be successful just by using AOSP with Office and an alternate app s

• GekkePrutser 5y ago
  I'm pretty sure MS would like to push the same kind of limitations, take the same cut etc. They really saw a cloud of dollars went they went all in with Tablet design in Windows 8 and UWP etc. They're coming back from that now because nobody wanted it but I don't doubt they still want to create their own walled garden. It's free money off app sales, control that gives them leverage over their customers and develops, data which they love (they're always pushing telemetry). I don't really see what's in it for them to make a really open store.
• ThatPlayer 5y ago
  Feels like a chicken and the egg problem: no one is buying Android phones without Google Play Store (except in China, which has no Google Play Store), so no developers are releasing apps for it. Look at Amazon App Store, and it's failed Fire Phone. Amazon has cornered the market on low-end tablets with it and people still try and install Google Play Store on it. And according to Epic's lawsuit, Google has been actively preventing hardware manufacturers from packaging alternative app stores with products.
  • Marsymars 5y ago
    > Look at Amazon App Store Also the Huawei AppGallery outside of China since they lost access to Google apps.
• LeoPanthera 5y ago
  Maybe they looked at the Fire Phone and didn't want to repeat that disaster.
• dylan604 5y ago
  Why do you feel Microsoft wouldn't "screw developers" too?