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I can see the justification for this in Android's early life. Every Android phone having its own app store would have been a disaster for everyone: users, devel

by Andrex 5y ago

I can see the justification for this in Android's early life. Every Android phone having its own app store would have been a disaster for everyone: users, developers, Google, and even telcos in the long run. Hard to believe, but Google Play (nee Android Market) was pretty damn shabby until about 2013 or so.

mdoms 5y ago
Has it become "a disaster" on PCs or Macs?
- xxpor 5y ago
  No, but that's not the disaster we'd have. We'd have what feature phones were like where you'd only be able to use the carriers store.
- ethbr0 5y ago
  On PCs, we had something before app stores. We just called it software distribution.