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>Google prohibits vendors from bundling other stores, they do? then why does my phone have a uninstallable 'galaxy store' app that Samsung decide to fill my li
by smegger001 5y ago
>Google prohibits vendors from bundling other stores,
they do? then why does my phone have a uninstallable 'galaxy store' app that Samsung decide to fill my limited storage with.
- cryptonym 5y agoThis still is a walled garden. Store from os or manufacturer. If you try to install a third-party you may end up with poor user experience from the os. Time to split app distribution from OS. Making it mandatory to allow other stores, with first class user experience, and not set their as default one.
- smegger001 5y agoI installed the amazon app store on my android phone and it worked fine same with installing FDroid. all i had to do was check a box when prompted.
- cryptonym 5y agoSure but it's only you, already knowing about alternative stores, and with your specific device.
- bubblethink 5y agoThat's because google and samsung need each other. So samsung gets a pass. They don't allow other manufacturers.
- izacus 5y agoHuawei ships with their own app store on devices with Play Services as well. There's no restrictions for other manufacturers. What other manufacturers can't do is fragment the ecosystem and prevent people from also using Play Store.
- bubblethink 5y agoThe epic lawsuit has quite a few details about google preventing manufacturers from installing epic software/epic store on devices.