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Wouldn’t favour the growth of alternative app stores? Upcoming European legislation is forcing eve Apple to allow third party stores on iPhones. I doubt Google

Wouldn’t favour the growth of alternative app stores? Upcoming European legislation is forcing eve Apple to allow third party stores on iPhones. I doubt Google would get away much longer with those practices.

MiddleEndian 4y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22996248/apple-sideloading-apps-store-third-party-eu-dma-requirement https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22996248/apple-sideloadin... Even better news than third party app stores, sideloading. No gatekeepers required at all.
mmmmmbop 4y ago
Third party app stores have always been allowed on Android.
- account42 4y ago
  That is only a half truth with how restricted they are - e.g. they can't even update anything without asking the user for each app.
- tpxl 4y ago
  Google successfully killed third party stores on Android and was fined for it in the EU.