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> That's not actually the truth. You can go to F-Droid, or Cydia, Amazon or one of the dozens of SEA app stores that exist. Is that sarcasm? All of those comb
by realusername 5y ago
> That's not actually the truth. You can go to F-Droid, or Cydia, Amazon or one of the dozens of SEA app stores that exist.
Is that sarcasm? All of those combined don't even have 0.5% of the market.
There's no competition, period.
- threeseed 5y agoThere is no competiton in countless situations when you narrowly define the scope. For example is there competition in the "operating system for Samsung microwaves" market ?
- realusername 5y agoI'm not narrowing the scope, all of those combined together are at best less than one percent of all the mobile app market. They are negligible.
- com2kid 5y agoAmazon was a real player for awhile, but they stopped treating developers well and their app store started to lag behind. Back when the Amazon app store first started, they gave away a high quality free app every week. Great for user acquisition, then IIRC they stopped paying the app developers whose apps they were giving away, and the quality of the store overall started to drop off soon after. If Amazon had made a play of taking a much smaller % of payment fees, sales and subs, they could have continued building momentum and been a serious competitor. I presume they decided not to for some good reason, but the potential was there.